on 12/18/02 7:55 PM, Virginia Wittmann wrote:
>Encyclopedias are only accessible to others via CD, with horrendous
>search patterns and never any access to all the text. Not even copy paste
>in some cases! The mindset of the programmer is forced on to the user.
>The user uses dictionaries, the programmer doesn't, for a living, that is.
>From my experience as a programmer of CD encyclopedias, the programmers
generally do understand the need to access text, copy, etc. But our
concerns for usability are always overridden by "designers" who decide
that the look of their creation is far more important than providing
things like menu bars, cursors, and scroll bars that work like every
other app on your computer. Every CD we did had to take over the entire
screen, and designers refused to make it convenient to use the
encyclopedia in combination with other software.
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