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I hated sitting down to a machine with custom mouse cursors, mostly because the actual hit detection point was always in a weird spot.
Indeed, but the fun was not in using them, but drawing them!
I'm not sure if that's how cursors work.. just a thought.
edit: grammar is hard
I've always been confused as to the success of the computer mouse. It doesn't seem like the ideal solution. Then again, neither do trackpads.
Without meaning to be argumentative, what would be ideal? In the absence of an actual better solution, one can explain the success of an obviously sub-optimal but existing solution by "worse is better" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worse_is_better).
I remember windows 3.1 had a utility for drawing custom cursors. I had great fun making cursors (I was around 10 at the time I guess) and had completed forgotten about it until now! I think that utility was a 16x16 grid, and indeed the easiest to see arrows utilsed the vertical, although actually a cursor which uses the horizontal and diagonal isn't bad either.
I remember windows 3.1 had a utility for drawing custom cursors. I had great fun making cursors (I was around 10 at the time I guess) and had completed forgotten about it until now! I think that utility was a 16x16 grid, and indeed the easiest to see arrows utilsed the vertical, although actually a cursor which uses the horizontal and diagonal isn't bad either.
In this same vein, I remember spending hours making custom repeating tile pattern backgrounds in Windows 95. Before the modern Web, using a PC was quite a different experience than how they're used the majority of the time now.
EDIT: It's possible i was inspired by the (lack of) landscape in Airborne, which i also played a lot:
I've always been confused as to the success of the computer mouse. It doesn't seem like the ideal solution. Then again, neither do trackpads.
> I've always been confused as to the success of the computer mouse. It doesn't seem like the ideal solution. Then again, neither do trackpads. Without meaning to be argumentative, what would be ideal? In the absence of an actual better solution, one can explain the success of an obviously sub-optimal but existing solution by "worse is better" ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worse_is_better ).
Nobody seems to mention a pretty good reason also: standard western text (and content in general) is oriented right-to-left; therefore covering only one side seems to me intuitively less obstructing (we can read perfectly up to the click spot, instead of being confused by what's underneath it)
This was the case as far back as the original Mac; I'm not sure which cursors were used on systems before that.
The US Government is crippling the idea of "democracy", we have total surveillance, SECRET COURTS and Wallstreet Banksters killing your freedom for money and this $MOFOBADWORD is thinking about mouse pointers.
Your children will live in a dark age of dictatorship, for sure, with "Hackers" who think this kind of BS is worth being on top of "news".