On Mon, Mar 21, 2005 at 06:21:38PM -0800, Ben Tilly wrote: > A friend who supports a lot of small businesses is predicting that by > the end of this year, Windows will essentially be unusable on the > Internet. This seems extreme to me, but I don't keep track of these > things, he does, and he has pretty good insight into the industry.
IMO it's been unusable on the net for years, and yet people are still stupid or ignorant enough to choose it. > A fun issue is popups. Everything works fine and then someday > there is an unexpected error and a popup stops everything in its > tracks. Sure, you can probably put in some kind of search for > popups that makes them go away, but do you dare? Until you see > them do you know whether it is safe to ignore this popup? > > The issue here isn't even gui vs command line, the same problem > was the bane of expect scripts. It is fairly simple to teach the > computer what happens if everything goes right. But in > manipulating someone else's user interface you discover > boundary cases the hard way - one by one. The result is very > fragile. Whenever your test script meets something it has not been taught to expect that is either a bug in what you are testing, or a bug in the test script. In either case, the only correct thing to do is stop. -- David Cantrell | top google result for "topless karaoke murders" "The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary" -- H. L. Mencken _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
