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A feature nobody knows about which I loved back when using Windows was the cursor defaulting to the confirmation button in dialogs. Nowadays where everything is

by Aachen 4y ago

A feature nobody knows about which I loved back when using Windows was the cursor defaulting to the confirmation button in dialogs. Nowadays where everything is web it's less useful I suppose, but makes clicking through those dialogs nicely faster also as someone who doesn't have a mouse-related impairment!

eimrine 4y ago
> Nowadays where everything is web it's less useful I suppose Implementation of cursor defaulting to the declination button in web is waiting for its hero. Also I need to iterate between the all possible Nos on a webpage by pressing Tab/Shift+Tab key on my keyboard since no one uses this key on a web-browser any more.
kelnos 4y ago
I feel like there's a lot of room for accidents here, though. If you aren't expecting a dialog to come up, but are using the mouse, you might accidentally click to accept something you didn't want to do. And I'm glad web pages can't make use of this; that's just ripe for abuse. Though I suppose what might be acceptable would be a more limited protocol where a webpage is allowed to ask the web browser to move the pointer to a particular non-hidden UI element, and only in response to some sort of user interaction. Still, this sort of thing seems concerning.
- Aachen 4y ago
  Definitely. It has been a decade and my memory isn't perfect, but I think this was about as rare as focus sealers today, like where you get a pop up just as you were tapping somewhere else and thus either dismiss it or push a button that you didn't intend. The first example that comes to mind is Spotify pushing something like a year overview 0.2 seconds after the app opens when your finger was just coming down on the "my library" button and so you dismiss it and there's no way to open it again. Pretty sure this happens to me 2 out of 3 years.

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A feature nobody knows about which I loved back when using Windows was the cursor defaulting to the confirmation button in dialogs. Nowadays where everything is

by Aachen 4y ago

eimrine 4y ago
> Nowadays where everything is web it's less useful I suppose Implementation of cursor defaulting to the declination button in web is waiting for its hero. Also I need to iterate between the all possible Nos on a webpage by pressing Tab/Shift+Tab key on my keyboard since no one uses this key on a web-browser any more.
kelnos 4y ago
I feel like there's a lot of room for accidents here, though. If you aren't expecting a dialog to come up, but are using the mouse, you might accidentally click to accept something you didn't want to do. And I'm glad web pages can't make use of this; that's just ripe for abuse. Though I suppose what might be acceptable would be a more limited protocol where a webpage is allowed to ask the web browser to move the pointer to a particular non-hidden UI element, and only in response to some sort of user interaction. Still, this sort of thing seems concerning.
- Aachen 4y ago
  Definitely. It has been a decade and my memory isn't perfect, but I think this was about as rare as focus sealers today, like where you get a pop up just as you were tapping somewhere else and thus either dismiss it or push a button that you didn't intend. The first example that comes to mind is Spotify pushing something like a year overview 0.2 seconds after the app opens when your finger was just coming down on the "my library" button and so you dismiss it and there's no way to open it again. Pretty sure this happens to me 2 out of 3 years.