[IxDA Discuss] About Double Clicking

[jackbellis.com]

Jed,
Your comments highlight a couple of great points.

First, that a simple embedded instruction makes personas and endless rounds
of punditry and immaterial. (Must we be cognizant of the accessibility cost
of double-clicking? Absolutely. But providing alternate invocations is a
matter concerning more than just double-clicking.)

Second, it says something about the hopeless battle that "Simplicity" wages
against "Power." (Double-clicking is not simple... it is a hidden technique
that complicates use.) Users don't "want" and never have "wanted"
simplicity. Rather, they "expect" things to be as simple as conceivably
possible. What they (we) always have wanted and will want more and more
rapidly as the totally-connected generation matures, is power.

All of the things that are powerful in desktops apps will eventually be the
norm in the browser.

-Jack

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <jed at id.iit.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, August 23, 2006 3:43 PM


We never found problems nor received complaints about the
interaction in general, possibly because the folders had a default label of
"Double-click to name."

We did, however, get occasional complaints from people simply not being able
to
double-click.