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To leave Commie, hyper to
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I'd like to switch the language at this point...
>Windowsin selaimet ovat
> > laadukkaampia kuin muilla alustoilla (koska ne ovat Windows-natiiveja).
First, define the term "good quality"...
BTW, talking about browsers for other platforms, IE for Macintosh is
a very good browser, for example. I don't have too much to complain
in the general quality of the browsers for Mac, either. The only
annoying things are slow Java and JavaScript (= ECMAScript). The
latter has too much compatibility problems, too. But I'm not exactly
sure, is the fault in non-standard code on the pages or in bad
ECMAScript intepreter in the browsers...
And it's not really a problem... For me, at least. Usually the pages
that have a lot of JavaScript errors, don't have too much to offer.
The JS errors _are_ the content in those cases... ;)
> > Lis�ksi, koska se on niin
> > yleinen, k�ytt�apua, ohjeita ym. on helposti saatavilla
And being a typical Windows-user, you really _need_ all that help,
instructions, expensive "How to use Word" -courses, nerd-friends,
consultants, etc... because compared to the original model of the
Windows user interface - Apple Macintosh - Windows is really
cumbersome and illogical. A Mac-newbie can universalize the interface
logic of the operating system to the first application he/she uses.
After getting used to the first program, he/she can universalize the
basic operational logic to the next program, etc...
Let's say that you're a Windows newbie and you're taking your first
steps with Word. After writing and printing something, you try out
WinAmp. Your first question is: "How do I open an MP3 file?". You
don't see the same kind of "Open" button as in Word. There's no
File-menu, either. After asking some nerd-friend of yours, he tells
you that in WinAmp, the logic is to right-click on the WinAmp
window... First the newbie will right-click on a wrong place, but
eventually he/she will learn that WinAmp and Word use different
logics for the exactly same actions...
After the newbie has listened to some MP3 files he/she wants to burn
them on a cd. "Where are my files?" he/she asks. Depending on who
she/he asks, he/she'll get a different answer. "Double-click on the
My Computer icon", says the first. "Open Windows Explorer from the
submenu of Start menu", says the other. Both ways work and both have
different logic. "How do I move this file, now?", he/she asks after
finding the MP3. The first advisor says: "Right-click on it, select
copy from the contextual menu and paste it the same way into
different folder". "Drag and drop it elsewhere", says the second
advisor... "With left or right mouse button?" asks the newbie... It
will take a lot of time before he/she'll learn some general
principles of doing things in Windows... ("Right-clicking gives you
optional commands in most cases, but not in WinAmp where it gives you
the main commands.", "You can move files by dragging and dropping,
unless it's a program. In that case, dragging and dropping makes an
alias to the program instead of moving it", etc...) He/she can only
universalize the interface logic of Microsoft programs, but not the
logic of _all_ programs...
Compare all this to the same situation on a Mac. You can open files
in _all_ Mac applications by selecting "open" from the "file" menu.
There are buttons and other different methods for opening files, but
the File-menu is always there, in every application (Hell, the
File-menu is even in calculator, but without the option to open
anything). There's only one file management system. You can configure
it to look a bit different (list view, buttons, etc...), but you get
to the contents of your hard disk always the same way. You can
_always_ move something with drag'n'drop. In fact, in Mac, try
dragging and dropping _first_, and if that doesn't work, think
something else. You need about the half of the information needed to
use Windows to operate Mac in the same level. You need half the
mouseclicks, you get to the menus five times faster (and the menu bar
is always in the same place which easens finding it - not to mention
that it is in the edge of the screen, which makes really fast to
achieve, because you don't have to slow down the speed of the mouse),
you don't have to dig through tens of sub-pages of a control panel to
get into some important preference of your machine (TCP/IP). Etc,
etc...
One friend of mine has used Windows for about three years now (for
reading email, mainly), and he _still_ doesn't remember, when to
doubleclick, when to right-click and when to just click... There's
nothing wrong with his brain, though. Another friend of mine looked
me loading MP3's to a playlist of a Mac MP3 player. "How do you do
it?" he asked. "You just throw them there?" He had never noticed,
that you can do it in Windows too... If he'd learned that (like in
Mac) drag'n'drop is the basic way to operate anything, he'd learned
the way in Windows. But because Windows is just a huge pile of
unorganized information overload, this piece of information had
bypassed his brain.
>MS on integroinut
>> Office-paketin softat aika hyvin niin ett� ne pelaavat yhteen aika
> > n�tisti.
In Mac, _all_ (*) the software play together well in Office-like
logic. Drag the picture in Internet Explorer and drop it to Eudora.
Voil�! You just made a file attachment to your mail. Notice that
Eudora and IE are developed by different software houses.
Don't get me wrong, though: I don't have anything against Microsoft
(except that law suit, of course ;). But in my experience, Windows
just is a poor Polish carbon replica of Mac. You're free to
disagree... ;) Only BeOS has gotten even close of the Mac
ease-of-use. (Actually, some things are made even better in Be...)
---> jab
(*) Of course there are exceptions... Like Netscape, which is very
un-Mac-like. And most of the Macromedia products have strange
non-universalizeable interface logic.
