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by dion.
Original Post: Apples love of the mouse. Don't forget the keyboard.
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Apple pioneered the mouse (via Xerox ;) ). They love it. I didn't quite understand how much until I was listening to an audio book on my last 5 hour drive from Madison to Minneapolis. I was listening to The Second Coming of Steve Jobs, which is a very frank account of Steve, and details his travels from NeXT back until he is in charge of Apple once more. It shows that he got VERY lucky with Pixar ;)
But, anyway, back to the mouse. When Steve was speaking to a group at Stanford (when he was at NeXT), he took one of the current Mac keyboards from a student who wanted him to sign it. He then went on to pick out all of the keys that he hated. He hated the function keys. He hated the arrow keys, as he felt that we should all be using the mouse.
I understand what a great innovation the mouse was. I would hate to use Photoshop with arrow keys :) However, I actually try to use the mouse as little as possible. This may be because I am from the vi/emacs frame of mind, and I have some weird twisted thought that it will stop me getting carpel tunnel :)
Although, I can setup nice key bindings on my PowerBook, there are STILL areas which drive me nuts.
Tab To Damn Drop Downs!
One of the primary irritants, is how I can't tab from text boxes to drop downs and select them with the keyboard. This is even the case within apps such as Firefox. I am sorry, but when I fill out a form I want to be able to just use my keyboard and tab between all fields. It drives me nuts that I have to stop and get the mouse out to make the drop down selections.
God knows how people with accessibility problems think!
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