Aristedes Maniatis wrote:
On 02/10/2006, at 11:11 PM, Kevin Menard wrote:
Not necessarily. I'm unaware of any rule that states you can't have
multiple links to the same item in different places ;-)
I don't agree. I think there is a rule (an unwritten usability
principle) that says this is unnecessarily confusing. In FreeBSD
developers have a concept they call "principal of least astonishment"
(POLA). In other words, do things that will not surprise your users.
I don't see how it would it would surprise anyone. All it's doing is
allowing two different paths to the same information and allowing people
to follow paths that meet their particular expectations. I'll read up
on POLA though to see how it might be applicable. I'm always interested
in HCI lessons.
--
Kevin
Kevin Menard
Servprise International, Inc.
"Remote reboot without pulling the plug" -- http://www.servprise.com
