On Oct 5, 2004, at 11:20 AM, Dave Land wrote:
On Oct 5, 2004, at 4:57 AM, Richard Baker wrote:
Sonja said:
How do you do that? Is it something automatic (window setting perhaps?) or do you have to script it?
First of all, It is evil. It's *my* computer, and I don't recall giving you permission to muck with my font sizes.
Blessed be.
Nevertheless, it is a clever bit of JavaScript, and something I might have done myself, had I not worked at Apple for seven years, where it was drummed into my thick skull to let people control their own computing experience.
I never worked at Apple but I've always, always maintained the same philosophy. User settings are absolutely, in all cases, completely hands-off. Or code-off, I guess.
This pissed off more than a few clients of mine over the years until I delineated the reasons *why* you don't screw with user settings. Particularly if one is distributing advertising, which is perceived as irritating enough as it is, one should not much with users' carefully-selected and -set schemes. And that's just the inconvenience factor. Accessibility programs and their needs might be circumvented by hosing settings -- rendering the user's computer *unusable* until someone comes in to reset the machine for him.
Bad, *bad* monkey. ;)
-- Warren Ockrassa, Publisher/Editor, nightwares Books http://books.nightwares.com/ Current work in progress "The Seven-Year Mirror" http://www.nightwares.com/books/ockrassa/Flat_Out.pdf
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