Talk:Cursor (computers)

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Who invented the cursor? When was the first time someone programmed it to blink?

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[edit] Cursor on early Windows versions

Although I've only used Windows 1 a couple of times, the mouse pointer appeared to be the same as the one used now (an arrow) - you can see it on screenshots like this: http://www.i-lo.tarnow.pl/edu/inf/hist/gui/images/w101aboutnote.gif I've replaced "early versions of Microsoft Windows" with the generic "many DOS programs", though I'm sure someone else can think of a better example (QBasic, maybe?) --Alex Whittaker 14:02, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] wikipedia text cursor

I've noticed that the vertical line text cursor on wikipedia's opening page has a small horizontal line in the upper right corner of the vertical line. IMHO it looks like miniature tilde. WTFlip is up with that? What's the purpose of that, does that have a name? Update: it only appears on my FireFox browser. 24.20.105.177 04:40, 19 May 2007 (UTC)

In web pages with bidirectional fonts (such as Wikipedia's front page, that has both hebraic and latin characters), the little line indicates the driection of writing. 62.92.17.193 10:34, 28 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Windows vs. Mac OS cursors: Black or white?

Why is it that Windows uses a white cursor while Mac OS uses a black one? 72.27.17.150 19:13, 28 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] What is this called??

I know this question is probably in the wrong place, but I don't know where else to ask, but, what is it called when you hover your cursor over a link and a little box appears with some text? (I'm still new with computer words and how to ask questions.) Oslogirl5 21:18, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

Tool tip? — Tobias Bergemann 08:21, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

At your service. I'm not sure what the name is but I can tell you the code:

<html> <head> <title>title goes here</title> </head> <style type="text/css"> <style type="text/css"> a:link { color:white;background:blue;font size:20pt } a:alink { color:white;background:blue;font size:20pt } vlink { color:white;background:blue;font size:20pt } a:hover { color:blue;background:white;outset:1;width:200;height:20;border:black;font size:30pt } a:link,a:alink,a:vlink, { color:white;background:black:font size:10pt;border:black } table {color:white;background:blue } </style>

A:hover is what I think Is the name. --LCondolence_ 19:20, 4 May 2008 (UTC)