Murphy's Law of Text Fields

[Foxymophandle]

When you have to enter in text onto a webpage, it never fails that your mouse cursor will be sitting directly over the field, blocking your view. Something I just noticed.

fmh

 

[notfred]

oh, how horrible! you have to.... MOVE THE MOUSE!

what's that thing? AHHH!!!! OH NO!!! AEIIIAEE!! something like that.

 

[killface]

Isn't that a direct result of CLICKING on said text field? It's not really Murphy's Law, just user laziness/forgetfullness

 

[Foxymophandle]

Well, yes, it is laziness. And you'd think that over the years I'd adapt to clicking/moving the mouse before typing, but no. Every dern time I turn around, it's there. WinXP can fade the StartBar, I wonder if I can fade the mouse icon.

fmh

 

[ViperMagic]

Theres an option somwhere to hide the mose when you type.....

 

[Foxymophandle]

A HA! Thanks SOOO much ViperMagic. Solved my laziness, and learned something at the same time!

fmh

 

[Viper GTS]

<< Theres an option somwhere to hide the mose when you type..... >>



Is it in the browser, or the OS?

Viper GTS

 

[GigaCluster]

<< Is it in the browser, or the OS? >>


O/S.
Although I don't doubt that it's possible to program this in a browser, in case the O/S doesn't offer this natively.

 

[perry]

I have the optinon in Intellipoint. But it's not working. I'm typing right now, and I still see the cursor. How worthless is that.

 

[SWScorch]

has anyone else ever been typing, and you hit backspace to correct a mistake, and your browser reads it as a "Go Back One Page" command, thus causing you to lose all your text?

 

[Pepsi90919]

OMG!!! OH NO! AIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!! NOOOOOO!O!OO!O!!!!