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Re:Canistilluse.com by cout on Thursday August 26, 2021 @07:55AM (#28313735)
And it's not just keyboard modifiers -- in middle school I remember having to explain double clicking. People eventually got used to it, then the web got popular, and I had to explain to users not to double click on web links but do click on desktop links. Even in this century I still occasionally see people using double click to navigate the web.
Re:Canistilluse.com by CRConrad on Thursday August 26, 2021 @06:47PM (#28322027)
Could be argued that that was a mistake in the original specs for the Web. At the time, as I recall it, "double-click for action" was already a pretty well-entrenched standard on multiple platforms.