On Fri, 15 Jun 2001 22:03:50 -0700, Warren Bell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
somehow managed to type:
>Mozilla is a seperate application from windows, I don't think people are
>going to expect it to mimic the windows functions.
Wrong. It's far more important that an application behave the same as
other applications on the same platform, than it is for an application to
behave the same way across platforms.
When I type ctrl-V on my Windows box, I expect an application to perform a
paste. The "putty" ssh app does X-like middle-click pasting on Windows,
and it annoys me no end, despite the fact that it's a more efficient way
of pasting, and I'm completely used to it in the context of an xterm.
>apps I use that act completetly different from standard windows
>programs.
And they should be shot for it. GUI environments have style guides for
a reason. A GUI is about setting up a consistent interaction framework for
applications. Breaking that consistency is a BAD THING, in the same way as
anything else that breaks the Principle of Least Surprise.
Charles Miller
