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Re: Silly software changes

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In article <barmar-263217.11251313122013@news.eternal-september.org>,
Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> wrote:

> In article <131220131809362323%YourName@YourISP.com>,
>  Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> wrote:
> 
> > In article <super70s-889CF7.20032412122013@bonxibon.datemas.de>,
> > super70s <super70s@super70s.invalid> wrote:
> > 
> > > >  - Holding down the mouse button for a second or so (on a link or 
> > > >  bookmark for example) no longer displays the pop-up menu - you
> > > >  have to Control-Click.
> > > 
> > > Yeah I hated when they did that too, I used that all the time. I read it 
> > > was done to encourage the use of tabs.
> > 
> > I can't see how the contextual pop-up menu would discourage the use of
> > tabs ... in fact the only two reasons I ever use the pop-up menu is to
> > open a link in a new tab or to save the image. More like sheer laziness
> > on the part of the programmers who probably assumed everyone had a two
> > button mouse.   :-\
> 
> How is it "lazy" to remove something? That takes extra effort (unless 
> they were making other changes, and it would have been more complicated 
> to keep this old feature working).
> 
> If an application didn't already have the feature, not adding it might 
> be due to laziness.

Depends whether that particular version upgrade was a re-write, or
perhaps the PC version doesn't have the feature so is added to the Mac
version, etc. Numerous possible reasons.

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  Re: Silly software changes Wes Groleau <Groleau+news@FreeShell.org> - 2013-11-24 00:56 -0500
    Re: Silly software changes Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2013-11-25 19:33 +1300
  Re: Silly software changes Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2013-12-06 19:05 +1300
    Re: Silly software changes super70s <super70s@super70s.invalid> - 2013-12-12 20:03 -0600
      Re: Silly software changes Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2013-12-13 18:09 +1300
        Re: Silly software changes Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> - 2013-12-13 11:25 -0500
          Re: Silly software changes Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2013-12-14 09:45 +1300

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