Re: [Tools-discuss] Help the aged!

[Henrik Levkowetz <henrik at levkowetz.com>]

Hi Elwyn,

  (adding a Cc. to Michael as this is his bailiwick)

on 2006-07-20 00:50 Elwyn Davies said the following:
> Hi.
> 
> Hitting the 'links' for selecting drafts for wgs and authors with a 
> particular initial letter (on 
> https://datatracker.ietf.org/public/idindex.cgi) requires a degree of 
> manual dexterity that I find a tiny bit difficult after a couple of 
> beers now I am turning into an old fogey.
> 
> Without taking up significantly more screen real estate can I suggest 
> either using . 
> A|B|C|D|E... (as per the watersprings interface - 
> http://www.watersprings.org/pub/id/)
> or
> A B C D E...

This variation would seem to be the most preferred for me.

> This gives about 15-20% more dither room for the positionally challenged 
> as compared with
> a b c d e
> as we have today.
> 
> FWIW I find it a lot easier to zero in on the upper case version for 
> some reason (this may be at least partially a psychological effect 
> because the upper case letters have a more even body width and the 
> outlines tend to enclose more of the 'active' space whereas the outlines 
> of the lower case letters only occupy a smaller proportion of the space 
> as well as having narrower bodies  leading to them being kerned more 
> closely together - I guess one naturally tries to click on the 'middle' 
> of the outline).

Yup.

One more thing: An additional way of approaching this is to use Firefox'
Command-+ (or Control-+) to enlarge the text so it feels more comfortable
for navigation.  But I still think it makes sense to go with uppercase
letters.

	Henrik

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