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I agree. He should throw some credit to Microsoft for making Windows so keyboard friendly. I don't know of any other modern GUI operating system that provides t
by jsz0 16y ago
I agree. He should throw some credit to Microsoft for making Windows so keyboard friendly. I don't know of any other modern GUI operating system that provides the same level of consistent keyboard control. Besides occasional problems like tab stops being out of order sometimes it's very possible to use a Windows PC without a mouse. I realize this isn't something most people want to do but it can be incredibly useful. I have to use a very slow IP KVM to manage a few Windows systems and mouse lag is terrible. I can navigate around the system using only the keyboard at nearly full speed. If you're doing some repetitive tasks that involve typing it's a lot easier to just get into the flow of using only the keyboard.
- Hoff 16y agoMost any X Windows box had this back in the 1990s and late 1980s, and (in the case of DECwindows) including "dead rodent" mode where you could navigate the cursor with the arrow keys; without the benefit of a mouse. One of the simple innovations that MIT X had that Microsoft was frustratingly late to embrace and extend was the Style Guide. Without that, Microsoft Windows and the applications were all over the map with the short-cut usages for many years, where the style guide and the APIs tended to keep X and Motif and CDE applications rather more consistent. http://www.recordare.com/good/hfs88.html http://www.recordare.com/good/hfs88.html http://www.opengroup.org/publications/catalog/t254.htm http://www.opengroup.org/publications/catalog/t254.htm http://developer.apple.com/mac/library/documentation/UserExperience/Conceptual/AppleHIGuidelines/XHIGIntro/XHIGIntro.html http://developer.apple.com/mac/library/documentation/UserExp...