Susan Kare demonstrating the Macintosh Interface on The Computer Chronicles (1984)
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Susan Kare demonstrating the Macintosh Interface on The Computer Chronicles (1984)
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She uses her mouse left handed.
Edit: Nevermind. She was at the start and swapped.
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@ann3nova It's common among left-handed mouse users.
(I prefer left-handed mousing, but a lot of desktops are set up with the mouse on right, so I manage.)
AFAIU, left-hand friendliness is both a major reason for why Apple's mouses were stubbornly single-buttoned for a long while, and why the ADB was arranged so that keyboard had symmetric ports, allowing the mouse to be connected to either side of the keyboard. Unlike PCs, Apple recognised the overrepresentation of left-handed users among its customer base early on.
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@riley I'm left handed, but I prefer using my mouse right handed.
Trackpads, I have to use left handed. I think it's because I'm "drawing" the cursor on the screen.
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@ann3nova Her name always reminds me of Sankhkare of the Eleventh Dynasty.
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@ann3nova Heh. I'm mostly right-handed, but for some reason, I feel more comfortable with mouse in my left hand.
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Riley S. Faelanreplied to Riley S. Faelan last edited by [email protected]
@ann3nova If I was in 1980s, building early windowed UIs, I'd made a point of allowing the user to configure vertical scrollbars onto the left side of windows, and the mouse pointers point up and right, not up and left.
Ironically, the major ones ended up implementing the support of both in only a few years, but in most cases, restricted it only to users in countries where right-to-left writing is common, not for left-handed mousers in locales with left-to-right writing systems being dominant.