In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Joe Francis wrote:
> >...
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >...
> > > Except, of course, for the bazillions of people using Hotmail and
> > > Yahoo Mail in Internet Explorer 5.x, where (last time I checked)
> > > Return creates a new paragraph and Shift+Return creates a new line.
> > > Those people can handle it just fine.
> > >
> > > Are there stats showing that Mozilla and Netscape users are less
> > > intelligent (on average) than Hotmail and Yahoo Mail users?
> >
> > Perhaps Hotmail users are stupider for putting up with such a broken
> > feature?
>
> Ok, so the current behavior in Mozilla isn't because your usability
> tests have shown that Hotmail's UI designers are wrong and the Mozilla
> behavior is easier to use -- but because you think the alternative
> behavior would be `broken'. Would you like to explain why?
It was irony. I guess you missed it. The real point is that calling
our users stupid and assuming that our users want the same things as the
word procesing users you mention does not strike me as a cogent argument
in favor of 'returns as paragraphs'.
We'll change it when and if our users ask for it. So far they haven't.
Maybe they will soon. Maybe they won't.
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