The History of Apple Mice in Pure CSS

by ianstormtaylor on 10/19/2013, 4:22 AM with 80 comments
  • by doomlaser on 10/19/2013, 5:49 AM

    Looking at them like this reminds me how terrible they are -- ergonomics isn't Apple's strong suit. Give me a cheap Logitech mouse any day of the week.

    Bizarrely, Apple's dedication to the "simple" idea of not having a second mouse button results in far more uncomfortable and unintuitive interfaces, featuring an ever increasing melange crazy gestural shortcuts.

  • by troygoode on 10/19/2013, 4:52 AM

    Wow, I forgot how much I disliked the original iMac hockey puck. That said, my least favorite of these (taking into account their contemporaries) is the Mighty Mouse - that little ball was awful.

    Oh, and this visualization is of course very slick. I was not expecting to be as wowed by the animated transitions as I was...

  • by stbtrax on 10/19/2013, 6:08 AM

    Is there a better way to navigate this page rather than clicking tiny tiny circles? I got a little frustrated after clicking 3 of them.

  • by badman_ting on 10/19/2013, 11:36 AM

    Their mice aren't very good. And the current one in particular, the one you can do gestures on, is no exception. However, I really like the trackpad and the current keyboard. It's exactly what I want in a keyboard.

    The problem with the mouse is that it's hard to do gestures on something that isn't stationary. I've always had a thing for a particular model of Microsoft Intellimouse but it's about ten years old now and getting hard to find, and mine was starting to go on the fritz. But I've been using the trackpad for about six weeks now and I really like it.

  • by INTPenis on 10/19/2013, 7:07 AM

    Attention, this Pure CSS website requires Javascript.

  • by Kiro on 10/19/2013, 11:10 AM

    Very cool but am I the only CSS hacker who is fat, has a big Unix beard and drinks Jolt Cola? Josh Bader looks like a rockstar.

  • by mikeg8 on 10/19/2013, 7:35 AM

    This was the most amazing thing I've seen on the web. Not even kidding, my mind is blown right now.

  • by Aardwolf on 10/19/2013, 8:38 AM

    Why not the history of proper mice (= with 3 or more buttons). They went a long way. It could be the history all the way from that first wooden mouse, through the first scrollwheel, through the optical mice, to a modern gaming mouse.

  • by kaoD on 10/19/2013, 11:41 AM

    I see  in many mice. Is it supposed to be Apple's logo? It looks like box(F8FF) to me.

  • by cleverjake on 10/19/2013, 6:31 AM

    It'd be neat to make a click state on the first few that had a button

  • by oscargrouch on 10/19/2013, 2:09 PM

    Did you mean: "Xerox PARC mouse" ?