Posts Tagged ‘usability’

Never Use Undo When You Need a Warning

Saturday, July 28th, 2007

I’ve developed a strange habit over the years of obsessively pressing “CTRL-A, CTRL-C” whenever I’m typing – be it MS Word or WordPress. My own little personal “undo”. Well, I’ve had this problem with my mouse lately where it loves to register a double click when clicked once. For some reason this makes Firefox upset, and as I’m typing in a textarea (such as this one), it will occassionally turn the textarea completely white. The only way to recover is to refresh the page, and in most cases I lose whatever I was typing. Ironically enough, as I was wrapping up this post, guess what happened? I lost everything. Strange habits can be useful.

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