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This is also a problem with seemingly stationary UIs, where a button is only shown when the pointer gets close to it. Especially when that button is within a cl
by pulvinar 4y ago
This is also a problem with seemingly stationary UIs, where a button is only shown when the pointer gets close to it. Especially when that button is within a clickable area, such as a thumbnail image.
The ideal solution to all of these would be for the UI to keep track of drawing events and disable any click that occurs in proximity to a just-redrawn area, and beep instead.
- ptx 4y agoThe recently redesigned Gmail UI is a good example of this: Chats now show up as minimized icons, and moving the mouse pointer over the icon to click it causes a close button to materialize under the pointer.
- jspash 4y agoIf I had a nickel for every time I accidentally deleted the wrong email using Gmail...