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."

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?

Was I the only one?

[erroneus]

Was I the only one who immediate thought about abused gerbils and duct tape?

Disney has misused mice also!...

[ARM_Coder]

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0382932/ [imdb.com]

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.)

When mice go byebye

[Anonymous Coward]

I'm still waiting for them to develop the system that tracks eye movements, and just put left click / right click on the keyboard. Until, i'll be using my mouse, which I had to start using after getting my butt kicked in quake II...

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.....

Re:Nope, 100% mouse is actually not bad

[TechnicalFool]

Actually, I hurt my hand recently and was using my PC one-handed.

Porn?

Re:Stop being such a geek

[Anonymous Coward]

The chance to hear the chorus of "Cancel" would be worth it however!

Abusing the real mice ...

[porky_pig_jr]

Here is a true story about the real mice. My friend worked part-time at Dana Farber Cancer Institute while studying at medical school. He told me all mice and rats experiments had to be properly documented, to insure no unnecessary cruelty was done to the animals. At the end all mice and rats were killed with gilliotine (quick and painless). I remember meeting him one day and he was a bit upset. He told me the last night air conditioner broke down and all their mice and rats died. So much for prevention the cruelty ...

Re:Article Text, part 2

[Anonymous Coward]

My wife loves it when I call her intellectually lazy. Doubly so when I do so in a public forum.

Re:Cat the Mouse

[Anonymous Coward]

Ever seen the back of a 60 year old draftsman?

Are you coming on to me?