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Mouse Gestures Gain Followers

Posted by timothy on from the user-interface-decisions dept.

StefMeister writes "According to this article at ZDNet, the use of the mouse using 'mouse gestures' (as introduced in Opera) is gaining a lot of followers. Personally, I almost solely use the keyboard as input device, but it might be interesting for others. Although changing the way people are accustomed to working is always tricky." I certainly enjoy gestures in Mozilla, thanks to OptiMoz.

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  1. STEPHEN KING DEAD!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    the king of horror was killed this morning!! he was in a pasture thinking up ideas for a new book and he got trampled by a herd of stampeding cows!! it was like "*thud* *thud* *THUD* *THUD* MOOOOOOOOOOO *THUDTHUDTHUD* arrrggggGGHHHHH **SPLAT** MOO"

    he was only 55!!

  2. geek snobbishness by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    "Personally, I almost solely use the keyboard as input device, but it might be interesting for others."

    Read: "I'm such a superior, evolved technical wizard that I would never sink to the level of the unwashed computing masses and use a mouse"

    BFD!!

    This is so transparent. Obviously the story on mouse gestures was just an excuse to make this point.

    This kind of self-important, geek snobbery amuses me. One hundred years from now, when someone is writing a history of ancient computing, the mouse (and the GUI, another favorite target of geek snobbery) will figure prominently. Believe it or not, no one will give a f**k that you only use the keyboard and command-line interfaces. I'm glad that you impress yourself, because you're not impressing anyone else.