Show HN: Make your site’s pages faster than instant in one minute
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Re: Show HN: Make your site’s pages faster than instant in one minute
#2This is a clever trick (using mousedown to trigger a click), but breaks drag & dropping links, drag & dropping links to new tabs.
and there is also a thing I tend to do: If I notice I pressed the mouse button down on the wrong link, I move the cursor away from that link and let the button go up on the correct or in free space, so the browser doesn't navigate (not sure how common this behaviour is, though)
Re: Show HN: Make your site’s pages faster than instant in one minute
#3This is a clever trick (using mousedown to trigger a click), but breaks drag & dropping links, drag & dropping links to new tabs. and there is also a thing I tend to do: If I notice I pressed the mouse button down on the wrong link, I move the cursor away from that link and let the button go up on the correct or in free space, so the browser doesn't navigate (not sure how common this behaviour is, though)
Didn’t think of drag and dropping links to new tabs! Yeah, that’s a bit of a sad regression.
The two other use cases you mention aren’t common at all though.
Re: Show HN: Make your site’s pages faster than instant in one minute
#4This is a clever trick (using mousedown to trigger a click), but breaks drag & dropping links, drag & dropping links to new tabs. and there is also a thing I tend to do: If I notice I pressed the mouse button down on the wrong link, I move the cursor away from that link and let the button go up on the correct or in free space, so the browser doesn't navigate (not sure how common this behaviour is, though)
Regarding clicking on the wrong link, then moving the cursor away and releasing the button, I do this often as well.
Re: Show HN: Make your site’s pages faster than instant in one minute
#5This is a clever trick (using mousedown to trigger a click), but breaks drag & dropping links, drag & dropping links to new tabs. and there is also a thing I tend to do: If I notice I pressed the mouse button down on the wrong link, I move the cursor away from that link and let the button go up on the correct or in free space, so the browser doesn't navigate (not sure how common this behaviour is, though)
> I move the cursor away from that link and let the button go up on the correct or in free space
I do this a lot as well.
Re: Show HN: Make your site’s pages faster than instant in one minute
#6Don't browsers do this themselves? Preload links on a page you visit? I think firefox calls it pre-fetching.
Re: Show HN: Make your site’s pages faster than instant in one minute
#7With Firefox 76.0.1, when I click a link, then click "back", the page thinks I'm still holding down on the thing I clicked, and have it in a drag&drop state. Then I have to click somewhere else to release it.
Re: Show HN: Make your site’s pages faster than instant in one minute
#8This is a clever trick (using mousedown to trigger a click), but breaks drag & dropping links, drag & dropping links to new tabs. and there is also a thing I tend to do: If I notice I pressed the mouse button down on the wrong link, I move the cursor away from that link and let the button go up on the correct or in free space, so the browser doesn't navigate (not sure how common this behaviour is, though)
Didn’t think of drag and dropping links to new tabs! Yeah, that’s a bit of a sad regression. The two other use cases you mention aren’t common at all though.
Realizing midway I clicked in the wrong place is very common for me.
Re: Show HN: Make your site’s pages faster than instant in one minute
#9Don't browsers do this themselves? Preload links on a page you visit? I think firefox calls it pre-fetching.
I don't believe so, no. Imagine how much potential wasted bandwidth that would be for someone on cell data
Re: Show HN: Make your site’s pages faster than instant in one minute
#10This is a clever trick (using mousedown to trigger a click), but breaks drag & dropping links, drag & dropping links to new tabs. and there is also a thing I tend to do: If I notice I pressed the mouse button down on the wrong link, I move the cursor away from that link and let the button go up on the correct or in free space, so the browser doesn't navigate (not sure how common this behaviour is, though)
Didn’t think of drag and dropping links to new tabs! Yeah, that’s a bit of a sad regression. The two other use cases you mention aren’t common at all though.
just want to hop on the bandwagon that I also regularly move away from a clicked link after noticing the mistake.