Why is a Mouse Cursor slightly tilted and not straight? According to the historical reason, It was observed that, with the low resolution of the screens available at the time of invention of the pointer, it was easier to draw a straight line and a line at the 45 degrees angle as compared to the straight cursor. As it can be seen in the image below that the original cursor was too difficult to spot among the other blocks of text.
Posted on: Tue, 18 Mar 2014 14:40:00 +0000