Re: Automatic switch between browse and edit

In-reply-to: Your message of Wed, 20 Jan 1999 12:06:36 +0000."
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> I understand that such a UI thing is down to personal preference. 
> Personally, I use IE quite a lot, and I like single-click browsing.  I
> was not suggesting that the change of click-operation should be the only
> one we support, or even the default.  I was just pointing out that this
> kind of thing would be possible, and would (I believe) work better if
> the mode switching was automatic.

In many environments the activate metaphor is associated with the double-click
and not the simple-click. I guess Web browsers are exceptions, surely due to
the first Mosaic implementation.

Regards
  Irene.

Received on Thursday, 21 January 1999 03:32:23 UTC