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From: elliott Elliott.Hughes@genedata.com
Subject: Hiding the pointer (was Re: [9fans] Arrow keys)
Date: Thu, 11 Sep 1997 11:41:33 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <19970911094133.nnoRkgicBMtPcK_menSSsCKUMqEJQjvBUgdUYJYoug8@z> (raw)

Steve_Kilbane@cegelecproj.co.uk wrote:
> Vanishing pointers drive me up the wall. I like to know where the
> pointer is at all times, but that's just me. My particular
> favourite: MS Word making the pointer disappear as you move it over
> the grey area that surrounds the WYSIAWYG page...makes me want to
> scream.

they tried to make me use MS Word the other day, and exactly that
feature made me refuse and delete it. does anyone know why they did
that? i can see the point of hiding the pointer while you're typing:
sometimes it's a pain to be typing under the pointer and not really
being able to see what you've typed (that's always my excuse for typos
;-) but why on Earth would anyone want to hide the pointer in two-thirds
of their screen area? ridiculous!

-- 
Elliott Hughes - GeneData AG, Postfach 254, CH-4016 Basel, Switzerland
mailto:elliott.hughes@genedata.com  http://users.ch.genedata.com/~enh/




             reply	other threads:[~1997-09-11  9:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1997-09-11  9:41 elliott [this message]
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1997-09-11 14:31 Bengt
1997-09-11 10:00 Nigel
1997-09-11  9:51 Lucio
1997-09-11  9:32 Steve_Kilbane
1997-09-11  9:14 elliott

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