On May 26, 2011, at 2:56 PM, Hal Miller wrote: > Apologies if it appeared I was criticizing YOUR attitude.
No worries. It's one of the vagaries of this text-only medium we all reside within. :-) > Added functionality availability can be a good thing. Forcing upon people > who don't need that particular function is not. Forcing functionality that > one person likes upon others who may not like it is definitely not. Default > should be "opt-in" for this, not "opt-out-without-instructions". (Tom, you > still there?) Now HERE I'm going to disagree with you. If that was the case, we'd all still have sites that had almost no functionality and were waiting desperately for you the user to find the secret hidden "on-switch" buried deeply in preferences (and there'd be a LOT of preferences, one for every new feature added over a web site's lifetime, which might span decades). To expect that as the normative behavior simply isn't realistic. The sites are going to switch the normal site behavior to what the site-maintainer believes the majority of folks are going to prefer. In some cases, where it is cost-effective to support a previous behavior, or where there is significantly vocal dissent, the previous behavior may be maintained via a preferences option, but not always (sometimes, it's just not practical to continue to maintain and support multiple revisions of a user-interface... To take it to the ad-nauseam example, imagine if Facebook had made every incremental UI change an 'opt-in' preference, and were forced to support and maintain dozens of different versions of the UI!) > I don't spend time on websites with lots of junk on 'em, so haven't seen that > trend developing. I started to see it first in actual applications, not web sites, which perhaps led me to recognize it when it started showing up on web sites. Cheers, D
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