{"id":2268,"date":"2003-05-11T15:42:23","date_gmt":"2003-05-11T18:42:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/bb\/viewtopic.php?p=436"},"modified":"2010-05-09T00:01:57","modified_gmt":"2010-05-09T03:01:57","slug":"re-the-evils-of-clickthrough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/2003\/05\/11\/re-the-evils-of-clickthrough\/","title":{"rendered":"Re: The Evils of Clickthrough"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John Gruber posts a <a href=\"http:\/\/daringfireball.net\/2003\/05\/much_ado_about_clickthrough.html\">follow-up about clickthrough<\/a>. He puts the ball into Apple&#8217;s court:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Only Apple can fix this. Where by &#8220;fixing it&#8221;, I mean three things, all essential:<\/p>\n<ul>Mandate correct click-through behavior in the HIG.<\/ul>\n<ul>Make Apple&#8217;s Cocoa frameworks do the right thing by default. Supply sufficient API hooks so that it&#8217;s easy for third-party frameworks to do the right thing.<\/ul>\n<ul>All of Apple&#8217;s own software needs to follow these guidelines.<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Hmm&#8230; I need an &#8220;applause&#8221; smiley here&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s an additional interesting tip from <a href=\"http:\/\/earthlingsoft.net\/ssp\/blog\/archives\/week_2003_05_04.html#000398\">Sven-S. Porst<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>One thing I&#8217;d like to add on the topic of click-through is that while it had been possible for ages in MacOS to drag background windows without activating them by holding the command-key while doing so, support for this background manipulation has improved in OSX. In Cocoa applications you can command-click most controls and use them without activating the window first. I like that. Click-through for the people who want and it and can handle it. It&#8217;s far from perfect, though, as it doesn&#8217;t work uniformly through all applications and doesn&#8217;t work for toolbar items either as the command-Key is used for moving items there.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Gruber posts a follow-up about clickthrough. He puts the ball into Apple&#8217;s court: Only Apple can fix this. Where by &#8220;fixing it&#8221;, I mean three things, all essential: Mandate correct click-through behavior in the HIG. Make Apple&#8217;s Cocoa frameworks do the right thing by default. Supply sufficient API hooks so that it&#8217;s easy for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,19],"tags":[28,23],"class_list":["post-2268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple","category-software","tag-klicko","tag-mac"],"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Rainer Brockerhoff","author_link":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/author\/rbrockerhoff\/"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1q3Zc-AA","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2268\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}