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Exactly a lot of real world (older) users do this and I cringe a little every time I see it. They don't even know that you can single click. This isn't a huge issue, but it's much more common than the people here seem to think.


"They don't even know that you can single click."

I see alot of younger people are like this about some things. (but not single-clicking obviously.)

How about raking your scrollwheel through fifteen pages to get somewhere? Analog scrolling, I call it. Because that's what it is, a skeuomorph of scrolling through a microfilm... I would've thought the advantage of having a computer was that you can go directly to page n, to line n, whatever.

In terms of efficiency, I would liken the scroll wheel to the arrow keys: it's alright for small distances, but not more.




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