>(I'm not the slightest bit >suprised this confuses some people however. Setting preferences in >multiple places is just asking for confusion in my opinion.)
Not to mention that every .js file has a dire warning at the top. "DO NOT ALTER ON PAIN OF DEATH" of something like that. Of course the programmers know all about it and how to do it should why shouldn't everybody? (grumble, grumble, grumble.) [More grumble, grumble.) People should take technical writing courses and take them seriously. The essential assumption is you can't make assumptions that anybody already knows anything. You go out of your way to include things you wouldn't need to read yourself. Then only a few can misunderstand. But, of course, all beta testers are assumed to be programming geniuses - and the tech writing educators are all assumed to be wildly imaginative alarmists. Jim L Snip XX to Email Today's groaner. Hear about the psychic midget who escaped from jail? Yeah the headlines in the newspaper read "SMALL MEDIUM AT LARGE".
