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I this related to when you are scrolling and selecting within a document, and you wiggle the mouse, it scrolls faster ? I always thought it was just a nice UI
by jaffa2 10mo ago
I this related to when you are scrolling and selecting within a document, and you wiggle the mouse, it scrolls faster ? I always thought it was just a nice UI optimisation, but I could believe it's actually some accidental side-effect at play.
(like make a 20 page word doc, and start selecting from the first page and drag through - it wil go faster if you jiggle. same in excel and nearly every windows app, even windows explorer)
- ninkendo 10mo agoNo, it has to do with every time you move the mouse over a window, a hover event is sent to the application, which runs its main event loop. Either the installer only updated its progress bar when an event happened (in which case it would only appear to be going faster, because the progress bar would move more smoothly) or there was some really terribly written code that literally only made progress when an (unrelated) event happened. My guess is the former.
- moron4hire 10mo agoBeing a bored kid in the 90s with nothing better to do, I had timed it. It was actually faster.
- fransje26 10mo agoNo, that's not quite correct. It was not giving the impression of being faster, it was faster. https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/11533/why-did-moving-the-mouse-cursor-cause-windows-95-to-run-more-quickly https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/11533/why...
- anthk 10mo agoIRQ's. It was faster.
- ygra 10mo agoExplanation for that is here: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20210126-00/?p=104759 https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20210126-00/?p=10...
- jaffa2 10mo agoAha! Thanks for the link. So it is a kind of side effect thing.
- joshuaissac 10mo agoThere must be so many subtle features like these that people use subconsciously, and when they try to move to another operating system, they try it, nothing happens and they get frustrated.