An interactive study into your mousing habits. (in Off-topic)

This web site www.dontclick.it was being discussed on the BBC News tech spot last night. I was interested enough to visit it, but will it ever catch on?

Heh, could this be the new CB interface of the future...? :)

that's nifty. buttonless mice would look cool.

why not just go touch screen then?

Apple has a button-less mouse. Well the mouse acts like one big button :)

Personally I dont like any of the options better than the click, all would slow me down too much.

Every time I went to read some text and then moved the mouse out of the way the text went away. It was rather annoying. How exactly would I copy and paste anyhow? It's still rather interesting but I'ld say their concept needs more work.

No thank you, I enjoy my clicking, it gets me through the day.

I'm reminded of the Heart of Gold's radio in the book version of Hitchhikers. When you move, it changes the channel so the only way to listen to a particular program is to remain perfectly still.

This is the same thing. When I move my mouse out of the way, the text changes. I hate it.

Unintended consequences: One of the banes of good user interface design.

It's certainly a little weird. I've used it a little bit now and I'm starting to like it.

To answer some of the specific points raised:

Touch screen requires hardware

After navigating the site for a while I found that although slower than what I'm used to I was becoming faster with practice. I think I could become used to it.

Yes, my pointer was getting in the way of what I was trying to read sometimes. That needs work.

C&P can work ok if it's set up for a keystroke. Hover over the start of the text and press a designated key, then do likewise at the end of the text you want to grab.

When you're typing a sentence in the feedback section if you make an error in the middle you simply hover over the error and press tab to start typing there.

this is funny.

I agree that the drawbacks could be addressed GB (ie mouse hides after a couple seconds of inactivity), but why reinvent the wheel? I don't see any advantage over a standard mouse. It just seems weird. Now dvorak, that I can get behind.