From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Abrahams Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: mouse-1-click-follows-link Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2005 13:27:40 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87d5qpt23j.fsf@wigwam.deepwood.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1118857110 5854 80.91.229.2 (15 Jun 2005 17:38:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2005 17:38:30 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jun 15 19:38:27 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DibpI-0000hH-7i for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 15 Jun 2005 19:37:20 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DibuX-0000Dp-P5 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 15 Jun 2005 13:42:45 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Dibsg-00086J-5N for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Jun 2005 13:40:50 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DibsT-0007z8-IS for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Jun 2005 13:40:39 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DibsT-0007xs-Ga for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Jun 2005 13:40:37 -0400 Original-Received: from [80.91.229.2] (helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA:16) (Exim 4.34) id 1Dibpm-00052Z-VZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Jun 2005 13:37:51 -0400 Original-Received: from root by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1DibiN-00087D-6q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Jun 2005 19:30:11 +0200 Original-Received: from 146-115-127-135.c3-0.smr-ubr2.sbo-smr.ma.cable.rcn.com ([146.115.127.135]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 15 Jun 2005 19:30:11 +0200 Original-Received: from dave by 146-115-127-135.c3-0.smr-ubr2.sbo-smr.ma.cable.rcn.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 15 Jun 2005 19:30:11 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Lines: 13 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 146-115-127-135.c3-0.smr-ubr2.sbo-smr.ma.cable.rcn.com User-Agent: Gnus/5.110004 (No Gnus v0.4) Emacs/22.0.50 (windows-nt) Cancel-Lock: sha1:CgmLwnyDtixMxTHGszZuFFMbMOY= X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:38900 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:38900 Richard Stallman writes: > Some programs need two, some need one. We had a long discussion > of this, and decided that most users would expect a single click > to follow a link or activate a button. I hope that predictive decisions about what most users will expect may be amended in the face of empirical evidence to the contrary. -- Dave Abrahams Boost Consulting www.boost-consulting.com