Re: Special Characters Edit Menu Item
Re: Special Characters Edit Menu Item
- Subject: Re: Special Characters Edit Menu Item
- From: Ken Thomases <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2008 14:24:32 -0600
On Dec 3, 2008, at 2:09 PM, David Blanton wrote:
I searched the archives and found no useful information on how to
remove the Special Characters menu item from the edit menu.
I want to remove this item ... is removing this item a good or bad
practice? If bad, why?
I can't make any appeal to authority, but I can say that I personally
find it a bad choice in most situations.
If your app allows the entry of any relatively unconstrained text by
the user, then the user may have many reasons for wanting to enter
special characters. That menu item is the most direct way to do
that. (By "constrained" I mean, for example, a phone number or other
purely numeric input. Or, I don't know, DNA sequences where only ATGC
are legal.)
Why would you want to frustrate your users?
Regards,
Ken
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