If your mouse died, could you surf the web and use your PC normally?

[iamme]

The batteries in my mouse just went out and it made me wonder if I could browse normally without it. Do you know enough keyboard shortcuts and such to go on without your mouse?

btw, this post and poll were done w/o a mouse

 

[Electrode]

Well, it'd be hard to do things in X, but text-mode apps would be fully usable without the assistance of a plastic rodent.

 

[brunswickite]

yup easily, plus i got scroll wheel on my keyboard

 

[Hayabusa Rider]

Since I use my lappy almost all the time, I would say yes

 

[Dragon365]

Nope, my keyboard doesn't have any working multimedia buttons, which would make opening my regular programs much harder.

 

[ROTC1983]

I have a second corded mouse

 

[HomeBrewerDude]

hahah i got a job with the city of Fort Worth after i got out of college and they gave me a computer with windows, and the usual productivity crap from back in 1992, and NO MOUSE. I learned how to navigate eventually... windows 3.1 back then i think.

 

[Eli]

I could, but it would be slow.

 

[iamme]

a few websurfing shortcuts:

BACKSPACE = Back
ALT + forward arrow = Forward
SPACE = page down
F5 = Refresh
TAB = move between hyperlinks and buttons
SHIFT + TAB = move backwards between hyperlinks and buttons

 

[PlatinumGold]

you guys ever hear about MOUSEKEYS??


allows you to use your arrows as keys.

it's a little awkward and slow but it works.

 

[ClueLis]

No problem at all. I might be a tiny bit slower in getting to programs, but otherwise this wouldn't be hard at all. In fact, I do it whenever I go into safe mode since I have a USB mouse on Win98.

 

[RossMAN]

Originally posted by: Eli
I could, but it would be slow.

 

[notfred]

It's kinda tough on a macintosh, but I've got a ton of USB mice around here...

 

[Vic]

Yes. I used computers pre-mouse. I much prefer the mouse though

 

[iamme]

Originally posted by: PlatinumGold
you guys ever hear about MOUSEKEYS??


allows you to use your arrows as keys.

it's a little awkward and slow but it works.

How to use MOUSEKEYS...........cool

 

[PlatinumGold]

Originally posted by: iamme

Originally posted by: PlatinumGold
you guys ever hear about MOUSEKEYS??


allows you to use your arrows as keys.

it's a little awkward and slow but it works.

How to use MOUSEKEYS...........cool

keyboard shortcuts are better if you can remember them, but mousekeys is also nice.

 

[thawolfman]

Most Definitely.

 

[Bootprint]

I'd get a gerbil instead.

I have enough old mice to survive, just use my mouse from my laptop.
Don't think I'd even bother with out the mouse, I could live a while without using the computer.

 

[Rogue]

I learned how to do it because one of my KVM switches is really flaky with one of my servers, so I often have no mouse and it's not worth the downtime to reboot for mouse functionality. I can do almost everything with the keyboard, however, I occasionally find something that you simply cannot do with the keyboard alone. I call that bad programming/UI design. Speaking of that, why in the hell does the active spot jump to the ad ad the top of this page when I hit tab after typing my reply, rather than straight to the "Reply to Topic" button below?

 

[ElFenix]

no, it would be too slow to keep up my 50 ppd rate of the last year and a half

 

[Sundog]

Originally posted by: Bootprint
I'd get a gerbil instead.

:Q
:Q
I can see it now: The great gerbil shortage of 2003!

 

[usualuse]

Fu*k,i don't know what i would do if my mouse died.
It's unimaginable.

 

[Gyrene]

Yes, I'd just use lynx.

 

[Mucho]

I cut my web teeth on Windows 3.1 so navigating with only the keyboard has become second nature to me.

 

[conjur]

Yeah...but hitting <Tab> to get to the hyperlink I want is sometimes a PITA!