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> Anything that requires combining a click with the shift and ctrl/cmd keys is not going to go down well with the average user This is how computers have worke
by oauea 5y ago
> Anything that requires combining a click with the shift and ctrl/cmd keys is not going to go down well with the average user
This is how computers have worked since pretty much day 1, not just the web. I remember getting computing classes in school, but it seems the current generation is completely ignoring all of that and instead just plays on their phone.
More built-in widgets would be great though.
- cout 5y agoAnd it's not just keyboard modifiers -- in middle school I remember having to explain double clicking. People eventually got used to it, then the web got popular, and I had to explain to users not to double click on web links but do click on desktop links. Even in this century I still occasionally see people using double click to navigate the web.
- CRConrad 5y agoCould be argued that that was a mistake in the original specs for the Web. At the time, as I recall it, "double-click for action" was already a pretty well-entrenched standard on multiple platforms.