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ISSN 1496-3221

August 5, 2002

Click here. No, wait! Don’t click here.

Go back (we recommend right-clicking and choosing back instead.) I found this well-intentioned text accompanying most of the “back” links on the idrink.com site. It just goes to prove that it’s better to confuse your users with several ways of handling a simple task than to leave it up to them to figure out where they came from. And note the platform-centric mention of “right-clicking”. I guess Mac users should just go ahead and click the link, right? Oh, but that’s not recommended. Oh dear, now what do I do? And now that I think about it, what happened to the closing parenthesis? Is it missing because I clicked the link rather than right-clicking? Now I know why I need a drink.

This item was posted by Grant Hutchinson.

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