Re: Weird doc-based behaviour?
Re: Weird doc-based behaviour?
- Subject: Re: Weird doc-based behaviour?
- From: Greg Titus <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 29 May 2001 23:29:20 -0700
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