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Double-click, as others have said was never something you did with hyperlinks, even before the web. Double-clicks were used with icons on the desktop because y
by Tagbert 3y ago
Double-click, as others have said was never something you did with hyperlinks, even before the web.
Double-clicks were used with icons on the desktop because you could do more with an icon than just open it. You could move it, copy it, etc. Double-click was a convention for a shortcut to open the reference of the icon. A single-click would have not allowed those other actions.
- Terretta 3y agoBecause of this, double-click became business speak for going to the next level of detail, digging into, etc. The idea behind this name for ads was: this company makes ads relevant and compelling, so users drill into them and find whatever you want to advertise. For what it's worth, because of the affordance you mention, even though users didn't have to, they consistently double-clicked banner ads, and most things they wanted to activate, even after they learned they only had to single click the blue underlined things.
- subpixel 3y agoYour use of the past-tense is premature, I see double-clicking all the time at work.
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- tempest_ 3y agoHave we moved so far past the desktop that this knowledge is starting to be lost? I had to swap real quick to my desktop and see if I still had to double click an icon just to be sure. I mostly access things with the super key / search now and I guess people with phones would just tap an icon.
- emodendroket 3y agoYou can configure single clicking in Windows, or at least you once could.
- account42 3y agoYou can but that means hovering over files for a second will select them (and clear your previous selection). Other systems (e.g. KDE) manage single click to open without that annoyance.
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- account42 3y ago> A single-click would have not allowed those other actions. Yes it would. And did. Windows chose double click to open but other systems managed with a single click while still allowing you to drag around icons and files.