Review: Don't click here for Content

As an editor who is used to cutting and pasting little bits of information from other sites to show you, I was a bit confounded by the dynamic material on the www.dontclick.it site (yes, even the name is clever...). It won't stand still long enough to be copied, as the movement of the mouse is enough to interact with the content of the page.

But that's the point. It's worth giving it a try, especially if you are not hoping to lift the site's own words to place in a review. And Alex, your host at www.don'tclick.it, is inviting people to link any other experiments that remove the click from the web interface to what he's built here.

He has a poll: do you miss the clicks or not? Be careful if you naturally dither - it will capture your presence with the mouse and count it.

And he is monitoring the number of involuntary clicks made by visitors who use the familiar technique to navigate even on a site that relies on a different form of transition. I tried it just to see what happens and it's quite fun. 10 seconds of suspension...

The history of computing and other features illustrate what can be done and also the shortcomings of whizzing content. Dealing with accessibility must be quite a prospect too...

Associated Link: www.don'tclick.it

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