Historically, only links got the pointer (hand) cursor, not all clickable things. Buttons and everything else kept the regular arrow cursor. Desktop software on

Historically, only links got the pointer (hand) cursor, not all clickable things. Buttons and everything else kept the regular arrow cursor. Desktop software on all operating systems has always worked like this. However, this convention has been muddied a lot on the Web in the past few years, but I still like to follow it.