Ruth A. Kramer wrote:
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>I agree with all those who have come out in favor of not removing the
>text until it has been dropped and determined (by control keys) that it
>is a move vs. a copy.
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The move vs. copy is determined by a key hold prior to the drag.
>(I assume that the current approach removes the text immediately and
>shows a WYSIWYG rendering of the text moving with the mouse cursor--)how
>does that play on older computers?
>
>The three church secretaries I know have rather old computers, one has a
>233 MHz Pentium, one has something slower than that (closer to 100 MHz.)
>and the third has something slightly faster.
>
>Randy Kramer
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Quite well as far as I can tell. I ran Abi 2.2 in a Bochs emulator
(slow as molasses in january) and visual drag was actually faster and
more responsive than typing.
-- Ryan Pavlik -- "Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses." --ConfuciusReceived on Fri Feb 4 13:40:18 2005
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