Leonard’s Mozilla links

Leonard Lin has blogged a whole bunch of useful Mozilla links. He also has this to say about mouse gestures:

OK, some people like gestures. I don’t because I like dragging my mouse around and highlighting stuff randomly.

So do I—that’s why I’ve got gestures configured to my right mouse button :) Judging by Leonard’s blog he uses OS X on a Mac, which I’m guessing comes with a one button mouse. The gesture package allows you to set a modified key that must be held down to activate gestures but I can’t see that this provides any real benefit over using a keyboard shortcut.

Posted 6th September 2002 at 11:23 am

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Yes, Macs come with a one-button mouse, but there are plenty of multi-button mice available. OS X recognized my three-button mouse without my having to install any new drivers -- something that I just realized today. The mouse has been acting just like I expected it to. Associating the mouse button with the right button is a good idea, but I'm still not comfortable with mouse gestures. To my mind it's overloading the UI, trying to do too many things with a single UI element.
Sam Buchanan - 6th September 2002 12:58 - #
Alas, no extra mice button on the TiBooks. I'm running on a mix of Macs/PCs (TiBook, G4s, Dells, and white boxes). I've tried the right mouse button thing actually, but it was slightly RSI inducing, so I stopped. Nothing that I want to do that can't be done w/ the keyboard anyway. :) Well, except when the focus screws up key input. Jeez that's annoying.
leonard - 6th September 2002 17:15 - #

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