I think the animation is much better than the idea of "if nothing is selected, then auto-select the entire line".
The auto-select idea teaches bad habits, or it teaches something different from how the UI normally works / is supposed to work. And then you start a schism of Smalltalk UIs: Some that have this behavior and some that don't, which leads to confusion -- and turns people off. The GIF instructs visually, by example, how the UI works rather than compensating for the user's lack of understanding. Much better! -Ted horrido wrote > <http://forum.world.st/file/t128560/ProfStef.gif> > > > Ben Coman wrote >> A picture is worth a thousand words. What it needs is an animated GIF >> on loop demonstrating what to do. >> >> cheers -ben >> >> On Fri, 10 May 2019 at 21:32, Richard Kenneth Eng >> < > >> horrido.hobbies@ > >> > wrote: >>> >>> So say many visitors to https://amber-lang.net/learn.html. >>> >>> The problem is this: visitors are failing to read and comprehend the >>> last >>> instruction on the first page of the tutorial. The one that reads: >>> Select >>> the text below and click on the 'DoIt' button. >>> >>> They're not selecting the text. They do not understand what is meant by >>> "select the text below." >>> >>> So they immediately encounter a parse error and conclude that the >>> tutorial is broken. This is a horrible, horrible first impression for >>> Smalltalk. >>> >>> It's not a rare occurrence, either. I've received this complaint >>> numerous >>> times on Quora and Medium. >>> >>> So the question is: How to fix this? How to avoid this PR nightmare? > > -- > Sent from: http://forum.world.st/Pharo-Smalltalk-Users-f1310670.html -- Sent from: http://forum.world.st/Pharo-Smalltalk-Users-f1310670.html
