No, I didn't say it was the "best" way. I said it was
the "most user friendly" way. They can be (and sometimes
actually are) different.
Don't tell me you've never encountered a program that
defines it UI controls (mouse buttons, control keys,
menu accelerators, button placement) in an unusual way,
that is, different from most other programs that run on
the same platform. Have you thought of those "unusual"
programs as user friendly? Probably not. Although, maybe
the designer of that unusual program did have a better
way of doing things. One that, after you got used to it,
would improve your efficiency over the old way of doing
things. So although that unusual way was indeed better,
it wasn't user-friendly.
Generally speaking, the definition of what constitutes
"better" depends upon the task being done, and user
friendly is that which is most like the user has already
encountered.
--
Roger Chaplin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> At 12:26 PM 10/27/99 -0400, you wrote:
> >
> >This is by far and away the predominate behavior amongst Palm
> >applications, and is thus the most user-friendly.
> >
>
> What a bizarre statement. "It's the best way, because thats the way
> everyone does it"???? I guess you want everyone to start spelling
> "closing" with the added 'e' now, simply because thats the way everyone has
> been doing it?
>
> P.S. nobody mention patatos.
>
>
