I dislike the fact that they chose the term "flagged", which, in a lot of other contexts, implies "flagged for review". On wikipedia, instead, an article revision is flagged because it's been reviewed.
This annoys me about as much as the fact that Ctrl + Mouse Scroll Wheel works backwards in Firefox versus every other browser out there (Ctrl + Scroll Up actually makes the text smaller, which is completely unintuitive. Up means taller, bigger, stronger! Who screwed that up?)
Also, they drive on the wrong side of the road in Britain! The first two problems are worth fixing... I guess the third one can't be helped.
Scrolling up means that you rotate the top of the wheel away from you. As things move away they become smaller, not bigger! I think Firefox has it correct, and the other browsers are wrong...
Similarly differing interpretations of controls occur in first person shooters with (non-)inverted mouselook.
Yes, the scroll wheel itself moves in a horizontal plane, but it triggers a vertical action on the computer screen. Nobody with any experience handling a mouse is thinking about the mouse itself, but only about the effect it will produce on the screen.
The "move towards" / "move away" analogy falls apart because the screen is a vertical plane. "Up" is more intuitive than "away", and "down" is more intuitive than "towards". You may even see an example of this intuition in how people talk about using the scroll wheel: nobody says "scroll towards" or "scroll away". The FF people who came up with the backwards convention must have been looking at a mouse without thinking about its common use cases.
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I dislike the fact that they chose the term "flagged", which, in a lot of other contexts, implies "flagged for review". On wikipedia, instead, an article revision is flagged because it's been reviewed.
This annoys me about as much as the fact that Ctrl + Mouse Scroll Wheel works backwards in Firefox versus every other browser out there (Ctrl + Scroll Up actually makes the text smaller, which is completely unintuitive. Up means taller, bigger, stronger! Who screwed that up?)
Also, they drive on the wrong side of the road in Britain! The first two problems are worth fixing... I guess the third one can't be helped.
Scrolling up means that you rotate the top of the wheel away from you. As things move away they become smaller, not bigger! I think Firefox has it correct, and the other browsers are wrong...
Similarly differing interpretations of controls occur in first person shooters with (non-)inverted mouselook.
Yes, the scroll wheel itself moves in a horizontal plane, but it triggers a vertical action on the computer screen. Nobody with any experience handling a mouse is thinking about the mouse itself, but only about the effect it will produce on the screen.
The "move towards" / "move away" analogy falls apart because the screen is a vertical plane. "Up" is more intuitive than "away", and "down" is more intuitive than "towards". You may even see an example of this intuition in how people talk about using the scroll wheel: nobody says "scroll towards" or "scroll away". The FF people who came up with the backwards convention must have been looking at a mouse without thinking about its common use cases.