dmd 2.029 release [OT]

Georg Wrede georg.wrede at iki.fi
Fri Apr 24 00:45:14 PDT 2009


Jarrett Billingsley wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 2:32 PM, Georg Wrede <georg.wrede at iki.fi> wrote:
> 
>>>> (OT: an excellent example of this It's Done Because We Noticed We Could
>>>> stuff is in Firefox. When a picture is a link to another page, and you want
>>>> to drag that to the tab area, the entire picture is dragged with the mouse.
>>>> Now, how the hell am I supposed to hit the small tab area when the large
>>>> picture covers half of my Firefox??
>> Sure it looks good, and the computer owner can brag to the guy in the next
>> cubicle, etc. But there should be some obvious or useful *purpose* for
>> dragging entire pictures where a mouse pointer would be clearer, cleaner,
>> easier for the user, and use less computer cycles.
>>
>> I mean, who's such a nutcase that he forgets halfway in the dragging, what
>> it is he's dragging?
> 
> Middle-click.

Yeah.

But I still don't see the glamouros advantages in dragging whole pictures.

And I often drag stuff to existing tabs. A good example is when browsing 
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap090424.html where I usually end up with a 
dozen tabs in no time.


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