Mimi Yin wrote:
Are you saying, intrinsic versus not intrinsic-ness of an attribute =
needs to maintain integrity wrt r/w-ness versus doesn't need to maintain
integrity wrt r/wness?
No, I can see that one might want to add some "intrinsic" attribute
annotations to a read-only item: notes or tags or date fields or whatever.
It might imply a difference in the ui -- it seems like it will be harder
to communicate that some attributes are annotations/editable and others
are read-only. Not insurmountable.
I'm not sure if this relationship is necessarily true. Semantically it
makes sense to me that a mailing list message is a "Task" for me because
I need to reply to it, but is not necessarily a "Task" for Jeffrey, even
though we're both subscribed to the same Discussion Collection. Or is
that what you're trying to say? Because the examples you give in your
next email seem to be in-line with this example.
Hmmm, I'm feeling like this email has too many recursive pronouns.
*Question *Is Stamping as a Task an intrinsic attribute or a
non-intrinsic attribute in your view?
It seems to me that once you've stamped something, it now has new
intrinsic attributes.
It might not have been a helpful comment -- just noting that
conceptually one could think about the two cases differently.
Cheers,
Katie
On Apr 17, 2006, at 4:36 PM, Katie Capps Parlante wrote:
Mimi Yin wrote:
I guess conceptually, if we allow users to add read-only items to
different collections, which in turn "label" the items
accordingly...then what is the difference between adding a read-only
item to a ToRead collection in the sidebar versus:
Stamping a read-only item to show up on My Task list.
It seems like there is a conceptual difference here -- perhaps its
related to what you have called "intrinsic" attributes and whatever it
is we call attributes that are not intrinsic.
It makes sense that you can put read only items in different kinds of
containers, or are able to change relationships between editable items
and read only items. That feels different from an end user perspective
of having the "intrinsic" item feel like its half editable and half
not editable, as in your stamping case above.
Cheers,
Katie
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