On Tue, 12 Jul 2011 00:35:00 -0500, Barbara Nitz wrote:
>
>>o I had the site bookmarked with my user ID in the query_string so it
>> was preset on the login page; all I needed to type was my password.
>
>Isn't that a preference set somewhere in the operating system? I never let the
>OS 'help' me by remembering my userids. But you're probably not using
>windoofs, either :-)
>
The user ID I bookmark is my email address which appears in every
message I post to this list. There's little to gain by protecting it.
I never included my password in the bookmark.
What does "SR" stand for?
>>o It's bandwidth-profligate: 100KB for a 10-line message payload? Sheesh!
>Almost all of IBMs webpages are.
>
There's a joke about a dog, sometimes attributed to George Carlin. The
punch line is "Because he can!" This seems to be the rationale for much
web page engineering.
>As far as I am concerned, they have fixed one or two blatant errors, but they
>close their collective ears and eyes to anything regarding usability
>('intuitive usage'). Much better to 'educate' customers (as in - tell them
>they're just too stupid to understand the grand scheme of their ideas - and do
>it in such a way that the customer feels stupid and relents and uses it.)
>
>With the exception of one or two points, *everything* I said back in March
>still holds true.
>
Cite? Or must I scan the archives?
-- gil
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