Today's First World Gripe - ignoring Fitts' Law

[Ralphie]

My Mozilla browser on Ubuntu has a scroll bar that is so narrow it can be hard to grab.  It also sort of autohides, or at least "autograys", so that too seems unnecessary and annoying, because you have to guess where the hell it is.  It' snot that bad, I can just use the arrow and home keys instead (except when composing a post, then it moves within the edit window), but it is still annoying, mainly because there seems to be no good reason for it.  It seems to me that the original Windows or should I say WIMP model was very good but there has been a gradual decaying of it, and as a bona fide olde grouche, I say "stop it!". 

 

[donkpow]

[Wilbur]

39 minutes ago, RalphWaldoMooseworth said:

My Mozilla browser on Ubuntu has a scroll bar that is so narrow it can be hard to grab.  It also sort of autohides, or at least "autograys", so that too seems unnecessary and annoying, because you have to guess where the hell it is.  It' snot that bad, I can just use the arrow and home keys instead (except when composing a post, then it moves within the edit window), but it is still annoying, mainly because there seems to be no good reason for it.  It seems to me that the original Windows or should I say WIMP model was very good but there has been a gradual decaying of it, and as a bona fide olde grouche, I say "stop it!". 

 

Speak "Merican please.  I have no idea what you are talking about.

[Ralphie]

16 minutes ago, Wilbur said:

Speak "Merican please.  I have no idea what you are talking about.

Wilbur blah blah blah WIlbur, blah, blah, blah.

Man, I was counting on you for the Fitts' Law thing!  Have you ever landed at Fitts' Field? Hmm, I thought there was one, maybe not.

Anyhoo, https://www.wired.com/story/how-dumb-design-wwii-plane-led-macintosh/

 

[Wilbur]

25 minutes ago, RalphWaldoMooseworth said:

Wilbur blah blah blah WIlbur, blah, blah, blah.

Man, I was counting on you for the Fitts' Law thing!  Have you ever landed at Fitts' Field? Hmm, I thought there was one, maybe not.

Anyhoo, https://www.wired.com/story/how-dumb-design-wwii-plane-led-macintosh/

 

Fitts was an outside the box thinker!   They just hadn't invented the phrase yet.  

[jdc2000]

It sounds like the copied the "User interface" from the Windows 10 "Start" menu.  It does the same thing.  It has lots of bling-bling and eye-cansy but is very difficult to actually use.