Re: Select - Click - Tap

[Shari Punyon <sharipunyon -at- gmail -dot- com>]

And that is when you end up with a one-size-fits-all approach of Select,
which works great until you get into right-select and double-select.

Honestly, I really liked using Select for everything, except for those two
outliers. It covered all bases, and allowed for as many interface options
as possible, including additional accessibility options.

On Sun, May 17, 2020 at 2:53 PM Gene Kim-Eng <techwr -at- genek -dot- com> wrote:

> I don't think there's a one size fits all answer to this.
>
> If your UI is touch only, "press" or "tap."
>
> If your UI is mouse only, old-fashioned "click."
>
> If your UI is multi-mode (keyboard, mouse *and* touch), I foresee a
> long, agonizing series of emails or meetings without a consensus until
> someone above your pay grade eventually gets tired of it all and makes a
> "command decision."
>
> Gene Kim-Eng
>
>
> On 5/17/2020 8:35 AM, Emoto wrote:
> > On Sat, May 16, 2020 at 8:15 PM Lin Laurie <linlaurie1 -at- hotmail -dot- com>
> wrote:
> >> Thanks Thorsten and to all for answering my questions about this topic.
> > Now that the topic has been answered, please indulge me in a little
> > bit of thread drift.
> >
> > Which verb do you folks favor when instructing someone to "hit" enter?
> > Do you say "press", or something else?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Bob
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