On 4-Aug-2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Shmuel Metz , Seymour J.) wrote: > >The times have changed and there is a significant need to dumb down > > (yeah, I said it) the interface. > > I disagree. The time has come to make the interface easier, but not > dumber.
I'm not sure what a dumbed down interface is. Certainly there are problems with an interface being too smart. It can be a real pain to get MS Word to not out-guess what I really want. Is a dumbed down interface one that doesn't give us a lot of options? Most professional editors that use GUI interfaces on desktop computers give us tremendous amounts of options. On the other hand, most people who use the ISPF editor don't know how to use most of the options available and most people who use Ultra-Edit don't know how to use most of their options. Is an editor that highlights syntax "dumbed down", or is that an editor that fails to do so? My impression is that a "dumbed down interface" is the one the other guy uses. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
