On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 7:28 AM, Mike Pinkerton <[email protected]>wrote:
> My point is that I shouldn't have to convince you. Your style of > surfing the interwebs is different than mine and no amount of > discussion is going to change how either of us surf the web. Let me > have my preference. But in the abstract, can't this argument be made for most preferences? At some point we won't serve everybody's style well. The question is what tradeoffs to make when, i.e. is this issue important enough to warrant a pref. I have always been biased against prefs. Most people who would be legitimately helped by one will never change the pref (what's the stat, something like 10% of users ever even open the Options dialog?). Some people who _might_ be helped won't know which way to set it. Some people who change it will hurt themselves in doing so. The last two points aren't as important as the first one: if there's a real problem, prefs don't solve it for most people. They do, of course, solve the problem for _you_. But that puts us back to the first paragraph. Is solving the problem for _you_ (and the people like you) worth adding the pref? If so, when can I have the half dozen prefs for things _I_ don't like that Chrome does? :) PK --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Chromium-dev" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-dev?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
