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[edit] Computer Mouse

An extremely thorough article I stumbled upon.--Etaonish 22:39, Feb 5, 2005 (UTC)

  • Support. Very good article. 137.122.50.133 23:26, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
  • Support. That is impressive. --L33tminion | (talk) 02:30, Feb 6, 2005 (UTC)
  • Oppose too many mistakes, has no mention of the CORRECT original "laser" mice, which have been around since the 1980s, and were used through the 1990s by SUN and various other unix workstations. These were the type with the aluminum mousepads with the grid on them. These mice were not functional on anything else. Not to mention the laser mice section is a short 2 sentances. No mention of the "2 footed" mice which were available during the 90's. Merely a brief mention of "trackballs". Nothing on track points and touch pads which are "pointing devices" and incorrectly labelled as mice. Still too much content missing for me to support this, perhaps another time.  ALKIVAR™ 06:58, 6 Feb 2005 (UTC)
  • Refer to peer review not enough references for the volume of writing here, and also there doesn't appear to be anything over how Apple consistently refused to make their mice with more than one mouse button for many years (I'm an idiot), also the "hockey-puck mouse" (possibly the most stupid design decision Apple have ever made) isn't covered. Also there is nothing on the "click-and-a-half" mouse feature that was in OS 9. - Ta bu shi da yu 08:15, 6 Feb 2005 (UTC)
    • More opposition: the "history" section has non-historical material in it! Needs a total restructure. - Ta bu shi da yu 08:17, 6 Feb 2005 (UTC)
  • Oppose. Not the finest writing. Some sentences are so contorted as to be almost incomprehensible. For example, "On the other hand, supporters of — or otherwise people feeling comfortable with — mechanical mice claim that optical mice can be totally unreliable or even useless on some surfaces, which was true for the earlier models of optical mice and even some present-day models, which have trouble working on mousepads that are too glossy and some specific surfaces (especially transparent ones)." Huh? GeorgeStepanek\talk 01:25, 7 Feb 2005 (UTC)
  • Support. ✏ OvenFresh☺ 03:00, 7 Feb 2005 (UTC)