Mikael Byström on 11/22/05 said >Barbara Needham said: > >>I guess to me that would be the expected behavior. To me, the message in >>the outbox is the un-edited message, the one open is the edited message. >>Thus closing the edited message would replace the one in the outbox. >>Before its closed there are two messages, the edited one and the unedited >>one. That's the way I see it, anyway. > >OK, thanks for that. However, I find your expectation on behavior to be >quite unreasonable and illogical. Do you then also propose that if you >make edits and press the send button, what is actually sent should not be >what you see in the outgoing message window at the time (the edited >version), but what was saved before that? If so, why? If not, why? > >You're asking from the user that he/she should remember that a message is >opened, among many others that may be that at the time, when PM very >easily could handle the problem and alert the user and put him/her back >in control. > >If I present this on any mailing list that concerns itself with >development of interfaces and functionality I'm sure I'd get close to >100% siding with me on how such functionality should work in order to be >consistent and fulfilling user expectancy. You want me to try that?
I guess it doesn't really matter ... what CTM thinks is what matters. -- Barbara Needham
