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Re: The Perpetual Myth of iSeries Obsolescence

You guys are all so funny! You are griping about BAD GUI designs. While they are prevalent, they are not how it SHOULD be done.. All of you must be using a POORly designed GUI. Or maybe a 'browser'UI - remember, the T in HTML stands for TEXT. There is no G in BROWSER.
A GUI should have RICH controls, and should be able to be navigated by the keyboard as WELL as the mouse - not either/or.
In the end, if a user's dominant function is mousing, then the mouse should be in the dominant hand, and the keyboard in the non-dominant hand. If the keyboard is the dominant function, then the mouse should be in the non-dominant hand. In this case, if you key with your right hand and mouse with your left, you don't have to switch. How amazing is it that thinking a little differently might stop the whining?? :-)
And then there are the companies who think Solitaire should be removed. Like Evan said, that is a management issue. Solitaire is the best mouse training tool...
----- Original Message ----- From: <GKern@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
Subject: Re: The Perpetual Myth of iSeries Obsolescence



My main gripe about GUI designs is that they have you move from
keyboard... to mouse... to keyboard... to mouse...  wasted motion!


"That's a peeve of mine too."

Exactly - especially when I begin typing, and then look at the field (on a
browser) and see nothing was input. Then I (again) have to reach for the
mouse, move it to the field and click inside the field to enable the field
as input capable. You'd think tabbing to the field would make it input
capable. Clearly not head's down friendly. That's a 'feature' that's not
modern by my definition.


Regards, Jerry

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