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		Tabular-Iceberg 1 day ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Bill Atkinson has died Wasn't the pointer always a hand in HyperCard?

WillAdams 1 day ago [–]

Depended on context, and what the stack programmer set it to. Possibilities (per Fig. 51-1 in _The Complete Hypercard Handbook, 2nd edition_ were:

- watch

- busy

- hand

- arrow

- iBeam

- cross

- plus

mock-possum 1 hour ago | [–]

And in turn, from the css2 spec:

> auto | crosshair | default | pointer | move | e-resize | ne-resize | nw-resize | n-resize | se-resize | sw-resize | s-resize | w-resize| text | wait | help | <url>

https://www.w3.org/TR/WD-CSS2-971104/ui.html

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