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16 Jul 2003
I'm a bit nervous about owning up to this, in case I find that it is just me, but...
Does anyone else find that—when loading up a screenshot in a browser which opens in its own window—you try to click the close widgets in the image rather than the real window widgets? This happens to me all the time. I'm sitting there scowling while clicking away fruitlessly, muttering "Stoopid close button" in a Homeric1 fashion, before I realize my mistake. Then I glance around to check whether anyone saw me being such a muppet.
1Simpson, obviously.
2
Phew! It isn't just me!
Lyle: That's pretty much why I use the mouse rather than just blithely Cmd+W-ing: Safari has some odd window focus problems, which often means that I end up closing a window with loads of carefully hoarded tabs. And then swearing a lot.
There ought to be a word for this screenshot interaction. 'phantom clicking' perhaps? Like phantom limbs...
3
I'm the opposite - tend to find I close the window before I wanted to. Grin
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What really freaks me out is that I seem to subconciously take in the window chrome and automatically mouse to whichever corner I expect the close widget to be. Even when I'm working in a completely different OS to the one the screenshot is from. And yes, I try to scroll images of scroll bars, too.
And I heartily agree with comments about window focus in Safari. I must get around to disabling command+W and command+Q - presumably one can simply edit a .nib file?
by Jonathan Sanderson @ 17/07/2003 9:08 am • Permalink •
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Oh yes, that’s me too. Though I have to confess to being a Windows person - for which I hope you’ll forgive me 
- I am frequently clicking in all the wrong places. And should my image be that of a desktop, I’ll try moving icons / applications around, minimising and even launching applications from the image - with obligatory swearing about the double-click interval set on the mouse…
D’oh!!
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I did it on a daily basis when I worked as an editor/terminologist at a software company. Fortunately no-one else could see my screen, so I was saved any embarrassment.----- Yeah, it�s pretty familiar, a small variation that I�ve experienced a few times, is trying to scroll with my scroll mouse on a screenshot (of a whole screen or browser window), or trying to copy text (f.i. an internet or email address) for a screenshot. It doesn�t happen to me very often, but you do feel rather stupid. Especially if you�ve first cursed at your OS and mouse for a few moments.
by TbosS @ 17/07/2003 7:08 am • Permalink •