Ben Bucksch wrote:
>...
> I believe that
>
> * Grandma won't even notice the difference between the HTML or
> plaintext composer, apart from the other font.
> * There is a large number of users, who spent a lot of time with
> email and who want features like bulleted lists and indention.
> * These users do not change preferences to get to the composer
> they want, because they have a problem with current prefs
> dialogs.
I think it should be a checkbox in the composition window itself -- as
it is in Hotmail and Yahoo Mail -- which the user needs to turn on in
order to see the formatting toolbar. (Of course, we should clean up the
dreadfulness of the current prefs UI too.)
>...
> > And increased experience isn't goint to magically make such
> > users start to want bulleted lists or variable indentation levels.
>
> But can we agree that there are enough users that want this?
Not enough to warrant constantly putting up an alert about converting it
into plain text, no.
Here's some food for thought: As time goes on, the number of
confirmation alerts which are part of the design for any GUI application
should approach zero.
--
Matthew `mpt' Thomas, Mozilla UI Design component default assignee thing
<http://mozilla.org/>
