>Law of least effort says that Datebook should do whatever you need to
>do most often -- which Palm has obviously decided means looking at today's
>appointments.
>Which is the programmer point of view. For general consumers (i.e.,
>Palm's, and thus ours, bread and butter), a bit of presumption is useful,
>if it is warranted.
It's actually my consumer point of view, as a user of the program. What _I_
need to do most often is look at the monthly view, and that was my original
point--Palm made a design decision. For my use patterns, it was the wrong
one.
To take it one step further, if I remember correctly, for certification, we
are required to return to the screen from whence we came if the user
switches from our app to another and then back again. Our requirement to do
that, coupled with the buil-in app's lack of doing that, seems to violate
the most basic UI rule--consistency.
Regards,
Steve Mann
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