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0 pointsnipponese3y ago0 comments

Too confusing for a first-time computer user or a small child.

Having two small kids myself, I agree one button would be better for learning.

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Except it gives rise to double-click, triple-click, shift-click, command-click, option-click, etc.

Double-click was always easy to teach, to my knowledge there isn’t a triple-click. There wasn’t command-click until OSX.

tomcam3y ago

OS X has been around for 21 years. Many readers of hacker news aren’t that old yet.

Triple click is only a thing on iOS, apparently. Thank you for the correction: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204390

Double click is easy to teach but it’s sure as hell not discoverable. Whereas second and middle button advocates have, to me, semi convincingly claimed that they could also be taught through consistent application. In other words, not better but not worse.

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0 pointsnipponese3y ago0 comments

Too confusing for a first-time computer user or a small child.

Having two small kids myself, I agree one button would be better for learning.

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tomcam3y ago

Except it gives rise to double-click, triple-click, shift-click, command-click, option-click, etc.

nipponeseOP3y ago

Double-click was always easy to teach, to my knowledge there isn’t a triple-click. There wasn’t command-click until OSX.

tomcam3y ago

OS X has been around for 21 years. Many readers of hacker news aren’t that old yet.

Triple click is only a thing on iOS, apparently. Thank you for the correction: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204390

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