[OT] Pigs Fly

[Richard Gaskin]

Just as I'd heard from Punxatawny Phil, the Prognosticator of 
Prognosticators, Apple is finally joining the rest of the industry in 
shipping a multi-button mouse for its customers:

New Mouse for Macs Has Multiple Buttons
<http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/apple_s_new_mouse;_ylt=As1C3mk3YMOhH9.n16yV7fYDW7oF;_ylu=X3oDMTBiMW04NW9mBHNlYwMlJVRPUCUl>

While somewhat trivial, this says two great things for us multi-platform 
developers:

1. We're now more motivated than ever to implement extensive right-click 
menus throughout our apps.  These are often overlooked by Mac 
developers, but are a critical part of the Windows user experience and 
implementing them thoroughly in many case will raise the perceived 
professionalism of your Windows releases and increase sales.

2. Any time Apple moves beyond the old symptoms of NIH Syndrome and 
plays nice with the rest of the industry they should be applauded, as it 
makes our work as software designers much simpler. This is a healthy 
sign of organizational maturity, a clear acknowledgement that the 
industry and their audience has become more sophisticaed with mouse use 
since 1984.

First MacTel, now multi-button mice.  Now if only Windows would follow 
suit and correct the positions of their dialog box buttons we'd all be 
in platform-independence heaven. :)

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  Richard Gaskin
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