On 29/12/11 18:02, coder wrote:
Most people don't even know what a back button is!
Apparently most people do:
"The Back button is the lifeline of the Web user and the second-most
used navigation feature (after following hypertext links)."
http://www.useit.com/alertbox/990530.html
Though I
On 29/12/11 17:53, Hassan Schroeder wrote:
Why should *web apps* be unconditionally constrained from the same
context-driven behavior?
You ask an interesting question: are we talking about web apps or web
sites? Does the answer make a difference? Can a user tell the difference?
Rob
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On 12/29/11 11:31 AM, Tom Ditmars wrote:
I would dare to venture that the world has reached a point where knowing
about things like "tabs" or "right-clicking" should be expected. The
World Wide Web has existed for nearly 20 years.
Sorry to be the bearer of bad tidings... :-)
http://www.you
On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 1:31 PM, Tom Ditmars wrote:
> On 12/29/2011 01:02 PM, coder wrote:
>> I had an awful job getting her to understand what [a browser was],
>> but eventually she explained : "I use my e". This was subsequently
>> clarified by the explanation that she meant the small blue thing
On 12/29/2011 01:02 PM, coder wrote:
> I had an awful job getting her to understand what [a browser was],
> but eventually she explained : "I use my e". This was subsequently
> clarified by the explanation that she meant the small blue thing at
> the bottom of the screen. Let me add that this lady
On 29/12/2011 18:02, coder wrote:
I don't say having windows all over the place is something great per se,
but I do say that for most applications on a PC it is a very
tidy and very convenient way of handling masses of data which is related
(like my analogy of a web page in Dreamweaver or similar
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Can I just turn this around? To those on this discussion so adamant that
popping up a new window is a good thing...explai
On 12/29/11 8:55 AM, Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis wrote:
FWIW Apple do provide guidance for how windows in OS X are supposed to work:
http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/UserExperience/Conceptual/AppleHIGuidelines/Windows/Windows.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/2961-TPXREF21
Not sure S
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On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 3:25 PM, Hassan Schroeder wrote:
> On 12/28/11 8:08 AM, Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis wrote:
[snip]
>> Since they aren't navigating hypermedia, I'm not sure that's
>> comparable. But typically you have a fine degree of user control of
>> the opening of new windows in such program
On 12/28/11 8:08 AM, Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis wrote:
On Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 12:49 PM, coder wrote:
SO you mean that mr Dreamweaver programmer, or Mr outlook, etc etc . . .
shouldn't do it either?
Since they aren't navigating hypermedia, I'm not sure that's
comparable. But typically you have a f
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What I'm still not getting from this whole discussion is: it seems that
throughout the thread those of us opposed to launching new windows/tabs
have had to justify why we're opposed to them.
Can I just turn this around? To those on this discussion so adamant that
popping up a new window is a g
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