Howard Harris wrote:

   You're correct but usage in many other things is that Home and End 
are for going to the beginning and the end of *lines* and Ctrl- ditto 
for the beginning and the end of the document!

   "Affordance" (a term used by a Scottish academic [vaguely 
recollecting] who wrote on the issue many years ago in an Encyclopaedia 
Britannica Year Book) is about the design of the human/machine 
interface.  *Technically* so what that Home and End are given an 
unconventional usage?  However, I would recommend that you programmers 
don't be casual about *Non-technical* considerations and be consistent 
with general expectations (of all sorts of aspects of usage - not just 
keystrokes).  We want OS/2 to win more friends and influence people 
don't we?

   An important reason why the hoi polloi users are repelled by OS/2 
software is precisely due to failure at the affordance level.  Some 
failures along these lines in StarOffice comes to mind.

Victor Bien

> On Wed, 05 Dec 2001 16:56:52 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 
> 
>>I find no key in Bookmarks that will jump to top or bottom.  CTRL End/CTRL
>>Home in Netscape.  Am I the only one with that problem?
>>
> 
> End and Home work for me (I am assuming you are talking about the
> manage bookmarks window).
> 
> --
> Howard



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