On Monday, November 17, 2003, at 11:55 PM, Daniel J. Stern wrote:
On Mon, 10 Nov 2003, S Woodside wrote:
Apple's HI guidelines are quite specific that configuration choices should be made, whenever possible, by the programmer and not by the user. The whole point is that we as software designers are the ones who should make the difficult decisions of what works and what doesn't.
I'm curious, SW. Can you share with us, please, exactly where you find that statement (page ref, URL)? I can't seem to find anything even resembling it in Apple's current HIG at http://tinyurl.com/vgge .
"To reduce the complexity of your application, make decisions about which features to implement as preferences based on what your users really need. The key is to implement as preferences only those features that your users find useful. In other words, avoid creating one large window with all the preferences you can think of. Instead, eliminate the settings that are special cases of a behavior or an attribute and build in flexible features as a part of your application."
simon
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