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Does the frabitx click or does the mouse click? Far as I know, the
mouse clicks. But you want people to "select" or hover on the frabitx
and left-click (or right-click) the mouse. So in fact, even "click on
the frabitx" is short hand, but it's closer than click the frabitx.
Wow, what a realization!
Regards,
Kathleen
On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 6:44 PM, Janice Gelb <Janice -dot- Gelb -at- sun -dot- com> wrote:
> Kathleen MacDowell wrote:
>> (Long answer to short question)
>>
>> As much as possible, I "try" to write complete thoughts and sentences.
>> If you think about it, "click the frabitx" is meaningless when you're
>> referring to using a mouse (and I have no idea how the same action
>> would be done without one, as someone mentioned doing). I would
>> compare this to calling x = y to x equals y (which is definitely not
>> the correct interpretation, even though that was what I learned).
>>
>
> Sorry, I'm afraid I still don't quite understand.
> Why is "click the frabitx meaningless when you're
> using a mouse" but "click on" isn't?
>
> -- Janice
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