On the Widespread Misuse of the Mouse

An anonymous reader writes "Recently launched blog "The New Interface Advocate," has an entry about how mice are being applied to situations they are intrinsically poorly suited for. It also has an interesting proposal for how to keep most of the current paradigm of GUIs and still take advantage of the other control devices, such as the keyboard."

Comments

Testing...testing...one...two...three.

[Anonymous Coward]

And here I though the story was about the abuse of medical mice.

Re:Using mouse hurts!!!

[GFree]

Sorry... suffering massive packet loss... your post came out rather fragmented. I could only make out the following:

Really my wrist hurts

average of 12 hours a day

"A proposal for a nearly mouseless interface."

[bheer]

When I read that in TFA, I swear the first thought in my mind was -- he's going to reinvent Emacs?

Oh, it's the worst...

[Junior J. Junior III]

Try entering text with a mouse sometime... it goes something like this:

1. Scan document for instance of the letter you want to type, scrolling as necessary.
2. Highlight, right-click, hover to "Copy", click.
3. Scroll back to your insertion point, right-click, hover to "Paste", click again.

Man is that slow and inefficient!

Re:Article Text, part 2

[antifoidulus]

Best sentence in the whole article: (Note: Click on Images for a full-size view.)

Re:Stop being such a geek

[halcyon1234]

Or the disgruntled employee being dragged out of the building, all the while shouting "FORMAT C: YES"

Re:When mice go byebye

[earlymon]

I'm still waiting for them to develop the system that tracks eye movements, and just put left click / right click on the keyboard. Uhhhhh - dude. Left wink / right wink. And eyebrows for scrolling.....