From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matt H Message-ID: <151231784127.20010520090921@proweb.co.uk> To: Scott Schwartz <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] mouse vs key In-Reply-To: <20010520013841.25839.qmail@g.bio.cse.psu.edu> References: <20010520013841.25839.qmail@g.bio.cse.psu.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Sun, 20 May 2001 09:09:21 +0100 Topicbox-Message-UUID: a387a242-eac9-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 Hello Scott, SS> (Fitt's law: targets along an edge are faster to access). SS> Most other systems lack those properties, which might effect the outcome. I've been looking forward to tactile feedback mice for this kind of reason. When them mouse crosses a window boundary for instance, it resists for a short time to help you target your mouse. Logitech have now released one : http://www.logitech.com/cf/products/productoverview.cfm/79?24 SS> Also, elsewhere he's said that mouse chords are a bad idea. SS> Possibly not the best source for a defense of Acme. :-) hehe but they were convinced that a combination of mouse and keybard were positive which does lend some weight to my idea of assigning stuff to the function keys. Function keys are also present on the world's keyboards (AFAIK). Making them programmable would be cool. In fact if you made them a directory you could bind them in either collectively or individually. Takes me back to my BBC Model B and is a function I've missed in modern computers. -- Best regards, Matt mailto:matt@proweb.co.uk