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Re: Clickable labels WAS: Adding a label to search box

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From: Tim Beadle
Date: Apr 12, 2006 6:10AM

On 12/04/06, ben morrison < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> But doesn't the web operate differently to operating stystem
> conventions - you never get a hand pointer - unless you are clicking
> URL, which is part of a web/multimedia convention. This is where we
> say it should ony be for URLs....

Let's say we were to say "a hand should appear whenever something is
clickable". In that case, the web (browser implementation) as it
stands isn't even consistent with itself! Form buttons don't give you
a hand *by default*; only links do. As has been pointed out, though,
you can override the default behaviour with CSS. At the end of the
day, does a user care that one "clicky thing" is a link and the other
is a form button? No.

> For Fun: An amusing take on devils advocate
> http://headrush.typepad.com/creating_passionate_users/2005/10/death_by_devils.html

Indeed. But I'm getting deja vu ;)

Tim