Only one click via dock, double click is only for when you want to browse with your keyboard so you can click once to select starting position, or for selecting if needed. But you don't really need that in a browser, for the odd occasion you have a file browser, it's currently easy enough to implement if wanted.
Double-clicking on the Web
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Re: Double-clicking on the Web
#12Firefox seems to remove the second click sometimes. If I click a link, and then, while the page is loading but the old page is still visible change my mind and click another link, it sometimes ignores the second click. However it doesn't seem to happen all the time. As an aside, the distinction between double click and single click used to be much clearer (in Windows 3.1/95 times!): - If its on a white background, ma…
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#13Backward compatibility? Some click targets are meant to be clicked more than once, and can you guarantee that none of those targets may inadvertently be swept up in a change like this? I'd flip the proposal around, and go for: ... The problem then is for the hung responses which still happen frequently enough, the typical hack to unfreeze a requeust is to mash the link/button a second time. Now, would the user have t…
never a good idea to camelCase html attributes :) (in case you didn't know, this won't work: $('form').attr('onlyOnce') but this will $('form').attr('onlyonce') if your attribute is written as onlyOnce
Mixed case in attribute names is perfectly valid HTML, and tag and attribute names are case insensitive. If jQuery attribute selection isn't, then maybe it should be considered a bug in jQuery.
That's not to say that it isn't a bad idea, but I don't think the inconsistent behavior in jQuery should be considered in arriving at that conclusion.
Re: Double-clicking on the Web
#14I love double clicking in the new google drive file browser!
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#15Don't go breaking the word selector.
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#16That reminds me of the way my mother is using a computer. She clicks EVERYTHING twice. No matter if online or offline. That often causes problems. For example if you double-click an icon in the windows taskbar to open an application it opens twice.
Completely agree - I see the same behaviour.
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#17Is it me, or why is a setTimeout needed in this example? $(document).ready(function(){ $("form").submit(function(){ setTimeout(function() { $('input').attr('disabled', 'disabled'); $('a').attr('disabled', 'disabled'); }, 50); }) });
Was asking myself the same thing. This would make sense if your submit button will actually cause an ajax request that you might want to repeat. But actually submitting the form will cause a page reload either way, or not?
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#18HTTP already handles this just fine if you have sensitive forms: your form can include a one-time token which your server validates. If the token has already been used, you don't process the second request.
What we definitely shouldn't do (as the author suggests) is disable form submissions on subsequent clicks. What if the first response fails? You'll have to enter the entire form all over again, instead of being able to hit the back button. Madness!
The author's proposal makes things marginally easier for developers and shifts all of the pain to users. That's not really acceptable, at least not to me.
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#19Double-clicks everywhere.
I disagree. By far the most actions are performed with a single-click, double-clicks are mostly for one very specific use case - having a container control and you want to select one of the children and perform the default action on it.
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#20That reminds me of the way my mother is using a computer. She clicks EVERYTHING twice. No matter if online or offline. That often causes problems. For example if you double-click an icon in the windows taskbar to open an application it opens twice.
Exactly a lot of real world (older) users do this and I cringe a little every time I see it. They don't even know that you can single click. This isn't a huge issue, but it's much more common than the people here seem to think.