Read someone going on about how modern UI and computers in general are so backwards, harder to use than before... And I agreed.
load up web site, i've already typed my username into that box and am typing my password when the onload event fires and forces my input focus back into the username box, because if i had been relying on a mouse i would still be trying to navigate to the username box
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Both of those situations do suck. Focus theft isn't even just a mouse issue. Photoshop steals focus no less than 3 times on boot.
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yeah everything i'm saying is intersectory to other issues and to some extent is more informed by and habitually proximate to the mouse rather than caused by it as such
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select dropdown has been replaced with a fancy slick-looking version, the web default being just *too* terribly plain, which doesn't bother implementing the keyboard entry behavior of normal HTML select elements because the designer literally did not know it exists
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basically, the mouse sells you a slow, messy interface by presenting it to you as *friendly* and *natural*, and then people who want to use fast, precise interfaces wind up forced to use them because why would anybody want to use anything but the *friendly* and *natural* way?
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touchscreens are all that times 1000
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On the other hand, not having a mouse often means needing to know the exact archaic way to interface with a computer, necessitating quick-
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reference sheets. I think honestly a lot of these problems also come from software no longer competing on UI or features, just on saying>
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its new, compatable, supported, and people afraid to use something old will use it inherently, or don't know any better.
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Very few apps feel like they just add new features, esp without removing many, and a always come with more and more costs.
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