Comments on: Non-Partisan Browser

By: melvin toast

melvin toast — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000

You're so wintel! Unix and mac people use keystrokes all the
time. It's for people who can remember what they had for
breakfast rather than automatons who need pictures to remind
them how to do something.

It's faster too...

By: Zygote

Zygote — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000

Ah the irony.
I'm a Mac user now, but back in the dark ages, when I too toiled in the shadow of the dark fortress that is Microsoft Windows, I used the same remark to criticize Mac users.
I was convinced if I couldn't drop to a command line and edit my config.sys, autoexec.bat then it was a wuss OS. Mac was all about pointing and clicking.
Somehow I equated better with stupid people.
Like Joyner's take on Firefox, I understand his frustration with having to give up anything to switch programs. I happen to like Fox over IE but I don't use the same things he does.
The problem with most open source software, the operating systems included, is that too often they force people to choose to give up something for the promise of something being ostensibly better. More often than not, that's a promise that remains unfulfilled.

By: Teri Lester

Teri Lester — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000

Keystrokes are more efficient than mousing - you move your fingers very slightly instead of moving your whole hand over to the mouse and back to the keyboard.

Now, if you have to use the mouse to select, and then you use the right-click menu to copy and paste, that's not too bad. But selecting, then moving the mouse over to cute little icons - slow, slow, slow !

By: Leo

Leo — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000

I was using cut and paste keystrokes about 4 months ago... the comment of the person I was showing how to do it... "Gee, you're old!"

Heh.

It's still faster.

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Welcome to Castle Argghhh! The Home Of One Of Jonah's Military Guys. — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000

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