{"id":490,"date":"2008-01-30T09:59:35","date_gmt":"2008-01-30T08:59:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/?p=490"},"modified":"2008-01-30T09:59:35","modified_gmt":"2008-01-30T08:59:35","slug":"living-without-the-mouse-the-content-is-the-interface","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/490-living-without-the-mouse-the-content-is-the-interface.html","title":{"rendered":"Living without the mouse &#8211; the content is the interface"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I meant to link yesterday to John Lam&#8217;s post on <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/LessIsBetter\/~3\/223058443\/hate-the-mouse.html\">living without the mouse<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I do so today because it fits nicely with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edwardtufte.com\/bboard\/iphone-video.adp\">Edward Tufte&#8217;s remark<\/a> that (ideally) the content is the interface.<\/p>\n<p>Lam&#8217;s point is that &#8220;toolbars just waste screen real estate&#8221;. Thus, he&#8217;s learned to operate as far as possible with keystrokes, not only because this is quicker (hand does not leave the keyboard), but also because it lets him remove on-screen furniture.<\/p>\n<p>He writes primarily about Visual Studio, but also has a great tip for Office 2007 apps like Word and Excel. Press Ctrl-F1 to toggle the ribbon on or off. No ribbon means a lovely clean workspace.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wlWriterSmartContent\" id=\"scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:3e8f2381-31c8-4c7d-ab59-746507a318b2\" style=\"padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; float: none; padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-top: 0px\">Technorati tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/user%20interface\" rel=\"tag\">user interface<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/john%20lam\" rel=\"tag\">john lam<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/keyboard\" rel=\"tag\">keyboard<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/mouse\" rel=\"tag\">mouse<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/edward%20tufte\" rel=\"tag\">edward tufte<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/visual%20studio\" rel=\"tag\">visual studio<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/office%202007\" rel=\"tag\">office 2007<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I meant to link yesterday to John Lam&#8217;s post on living without the mouse. I do so today because it fits nicely with Edward Tufte&#8217;s remark that (ideally) the content is the interface. Lam&#8217;s point is that &#8220;toolbars just waste screen real estate&#8221;. Thus, he&#8217;s learned to operate as far as possible with keystrokes, not &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/490-living-without-the-mouse-the-content-is-the-interface.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Living without the mouse &#8211; the content is the interface<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}