on 20/12/2000 10:08 AM, Paul Berkowitz at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 1) If not for requiring the Edit menu item to edit, it would be all too easy
> to accidentally delete or change email you receive. All you'd have to do
> would be to touch a key, lean on the keyboard, or anything, and the email
> would would be changed. You'd lose someone's real message.
> 2) There are devious people in the world. They could change messages on
> other peoples machines. Or on their own machine, they could edit other
> people's messages on purpose, not by accident. Without the "Edit" function
> and icon, there would be no record of this.
>
> 3) Then everyone would sue everyone else, plus they'd all gang up and sue
> Microsoft for 9 billion dollars for enabling this to happen.
>
> All you have to do is select "Edit", for goodness sake. And all I'm
> suggesting is that an alert dialog could appear to let you know that's how
> it works (and ONLY if you press delete, not some other key) until the day
> when YOU decide you don't need it - which in most people's case would be the
> first time. So now you would no what to do, and you wouldn't have any more
> dialogs.
> Letting people "edit" without the edit menu item would be total disaster.
Fair enough. What was I thinking.
But back to the delete thing, that's still pretty scary having it disappear
(from a new user's point of view) into thin air. Have a dialog? Hmm, that
doesn't quite cut it with me.
There are too many dialogs (and buttons) already, in my opinion. I don't
know if there's research to back this up, but I think that dialog boxes
freak people out. They think they've done something wrong. I know a woman of
high intelligence who is brought to her knees when a dialog appears. I'd
think twice before adding a dialog, particularly if it extends an already
counter-intuitive process.
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Mervyn
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