Mouse pointers with drop shadows have their visual click zones and actual ones misaligned.

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• atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  If I understand correctly then you are assuming that the mouse cursor is hovering and not just thick.

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  • NarrativeBear@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Good take, I vote the mouse crusor on screen is just thick.

    Thus there is no “misalignment” at the pointer tip and the screen or shadow “below” the mouse crusor.

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• JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I don’t really get what you’re saying. Maybe a picture would help? Having worked with mouse pointers for three decades, I’m pretty sure it’s either correct, or if you disagree then what you’re choosing as the click pixel is arbitrary, and pointer style and implementation dependent. In any case, the user will generally learn the specific click behaviour very quickly, usually without even thinking about it.

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  • Valmond@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    If there is a drop shadow, then when you click, the click should be on the shadows point, not the “floating” triangles/mouses point.

    The point here is the outmost point on the triangle of the mouse ofc. The position that “clicks”.

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    • mp3@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      In the cursor metatada you can specify where the click occurs. Personally I always assumed the click would happen at the tip of the arrow, not the shadow below.

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    • littletoolshed@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I think I understand the pixel you are referring too, it may be diagonally adjacent to the click pixel.

      I’m not sure I understand ‘why’ post OP suggests that should be the ‘correct’ click pixel?

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• QuarterSwede@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  That’s only assuming the observer is at the location of the source of the light.

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• Albbi@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Not if you imagine that the cursor is hovering above the screen, and each click is like a virtual instantaneous drop to the screen to make the click.

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  • VirusMaster3073@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I want to see someone animate that

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    • NarrativeBear@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Sorry not an animation.

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• NarrativeBear@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Best way I could come up representing what i believe OP may have been talking about.

  Think of the top small floating line as the mouse pointer, and the black line at the bottom as the screen where the “content” is. The shadow of the floating pointer is what actually interacts with the screen.

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