http://www.betalogue.com/2009/11/02/click-through/ Notes from an unfinished world… Mon, 06 Feb 2012 13:29:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.betalogue.com/2009/11/02/click-through/comment-page-1/#comment-8543 Glass Maze – Fitts and Startts’ Law Wed, 04 Nov 2009 14:29:05 +0000 http://www.betalogue.com/?p=2852#comment-8543 [...] Igot discovers that the clickthrough behavior in Snow Leopard’s Finder has progressed from unintuitive to [...] [...] Igot discovers that the clickthrough behavior in Snow Leopard’s Finder has progressed from unintuitive to [...]

]]> http://www.betalogue.com/2009/11/02/click-through/comment-page-1/#comment-8542 Random Rants » Mac OS X Click Through Wed, 04 Nov 2009 13:51:03 +0000 http://www.betalogue.com/?p=2852#comment-8542 [...] Betalogue has some interesting points about the weirdness of clickthrough to unfocused Finder windows, but reaches completely wrong conclusion in my opinion. All clickthrough for non window-management widgets should be disabled – clicking on an unfocused window means “give this window focus”, it should never mean “give this window focus and activate whatever random item in the window I clicked on”. [...] [...] Betalogue has some interesting points about the weirdness of clickthrough to unfocused Finder windows, but reaches completely wrong conclusion in my opinion. All clickthrough for non window-management widgets should be disabled – clicking on an unfocused window means “give this window focus”, it should never mean “give this window focus and activate whatever random item in the window I clicked on”. [...]

]]> http://www.betalogue.com/2009/11/02/click-through/comment-page-1/#comment-8539 Michael Tsai - Blog - Click-Through in Snow Leopard Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:28:22 +0000 http://www.betalogue.com/?p=2852#comment-8539 [...] Pierre Igot: How is the user supposed to “know” and remember intuitively that click-through now only works in icon view mode and not in list view mode and column view mode? And how is the user supposed to “know” and remember intuitively that, even though click-through no longer works, “double-click-through” (to coin a phrase) still does? [...] [...] Pierre Igot: How is the user supposed to “know” and remember intuitively that click-through now only works in icon view mode and not in list view mode and column view mode? And how is the user supposed to “know” and remember intuitively that, even though click-through no longer works, “double-click-through” (to coin a phrase) still does? [...]

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