Requesters need to learn their place

Wednesday, May 7th, 2008

Generally speaking, one of the things I like about Windows is the fact that you can do everything with the keyboard. Don’t get me wrong – when it comes to drawing pictures and such, give me a mouse any day. But when all I want to do is launch a program or select a menu item, I find hitting a few keys a far simpler and more efficient way of doing so. (This, in fact, is one of my major gripes with Mac OS X – but that’s a rant for another day.)

What I don’t like is what happens when some requester leaps up while I’m typing and steals focus from the window I was typing into. (more…)