I want to pose one question to all of you…
Does anyone else called the right button on a mouse a third button sometimes? e.g. press third button, rather than right click.
Or is it just me?
Tags: computer mouse, mouse, mouse clicks, poll, right button, third button
December 16, 2008 at 6:51 pm |
Haha I generally call it the third button
But Im ur sis hihi
December 16, 2008 at 7:03 pm |
@ Cec: I am happy with your reply even if you’re my sis. Cos this will make MCA see that it is not just me
December 16, 2008 at 10:00 pm |
stramba naqa
December 16, 2008 at 10:02 pm |
@ Mina: what’s stramba? saying third button?
December 16, 2008 at 10:06 pm |
Well we say 3rd button…because when we started using computers (u were probably still not yet born
)…mice (or mouses or whatever) had 3 buttons not 2…and at school we used to call it the third button 
…all Ms Margaret (i think but not so sure) fault 
December 17, 2008 at 12:04 pm |
Wiki: Mouse (Computing): Buttons
Since mice can have a number of buttons it doesn’t really make sense to talk about the third IMHO.
December 17, 2008 at 12:09 pm |
@ MCA: Well, as the same link you gave says: ‘The prototype that popularised the idea of three buttons as standard’…So it seems there is some truth in my idea that three buttons is standard, makign saying third button for right button as not so unheard of…probably the computers at school ahd 3 buttons, which made the teacher saying third button correct, and which we took up and used elsewhere.
December 17, 2008 at 11:42 pm |
mice nowadays have 2 buttons
December 18, 2008 at 8:03 am |
@ Marilyn: maybe now yes, but in the past no
And you know that people use words from the past that are no longer really relevant – are l-idjomi u hekk 