Assuming that the mouse pointer is parallel to the display and that a light themes is used, the visual click zone is positioned below and to the right of the upper left corner.
E: correct content
E₂ (correction): The visual click zone should be more than 1 px², but it’s not misaligned.
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.
If I understand correctly then you are assuming that the mouse cursor is hovering and not just thick.
That’s only assuming the observer is at the location of the source of the light.
But then you wouldn’t see the shadow.
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.
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”.
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.
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?
A drop shadow implies that the object is floating above a plane. If you have an object floating above a plane, it would need to drop to the plane to interact with it, so the interaction point should be the tip of the shadow, not the tip of the cursor.
But the cursor ‘dropping’ wouldn’t move it to where the shadow is? The light source is not directly above the cursor so the shadow is offset.
Depending on the relative direction of the light and “camera”, the click point could vary. It wouldn’t be on the tip of the shadow unless the shadow was already directly below the tip of the pointer in line with the line of sight. More likely it would fall somewhere “between” the apparent position of shadow and pointer before clicking.
