On Tuesday, November 18, 2003, at 03:31 PM, Daniel J. Stern wrote:
"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."
It would seem your programming skills are considerably better than your reading comprehension skills.
Hah! You said you couldn't find any reference in the HIG... I found it. Who's got reading comprehension skills?
The HIG passage you posted *reinforces* the one I posted, it does not
refute it and it certainly does not support your assertion that
"configuration choices should be made, whenever possible, by the
programmer and not by the user [...] software designers are the ones who
should make the difficult decisions of what works and what doesn't."
What part of "make decisions about which features to implement as preferences based on what your users really need" don't you understand?
simon
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