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Re: Weird doc-based behaviour?

On Tuesday, May 29, 2001, at 09:25 PM, David W. Halliday wrote:

Bill, it's not that "the HI people are wrong on this one" so much as---with
so many issues where a given HCI doesn't fit well with certain users---the HI
people are addressing a different audience (a different set of users).
In this case, the users this issue is intended to address are neophyte
users---the ones that often complained that nothing happened when they went to
switch applications (of course, they neglected to notice the changes in the menu
bar). However, addressing the neophyte users in this way (even though I believe
it to be the best way for such users) does cause problems for the more
experienced users---especially the, so called, power users.
This is probably another case where the user audiences are sufficiently
different that one solution will /not/ fit all. Hence the need for a UI
preference (something that is often considered a big no-no by the HI
"intelligencia").

I absolutely agree with this. Just as an FYI, OmniWeb behaves by default the way the HI guidelines tell it to, but there is also a preference (General Preferences: Open start page when OmniWeb's Dock icon is clicked) which you can turn off if this behavior annoys you. I think that should be the solution used for most applications.

--Greg

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