BTW, if you could please use text rather than HTML, that would help, this is a mess for me to parse through...
On Thursday 31 August 2006 03:43 pm, Frank Ludolph wrote: > There are several reasons:<br> > <ul> > <li>Some questions are > dependent on earlier responses; it is less confusing to hide the > dependent questions rather than disable them as would be necessary in a > single scrolling page. <br> That shouldn't be hard, someone enters data in an entry, enable another one. They don't enter, keep it disabled. > <li>Sometimes background processing that occurs after a specific > response - hitting the next button says that the installer can proceed > without confusing the user. <br> This I don't understand really what you're trying to point out. We have all seperate pages, we ask seperate questions, and we take the user back and make them go through the procedure from the beginning, no matter where they make a mistake or put a bad value in. > <li>Scrolling would not meet user > expectations; no installer I am aware of places all inputs on a single > scrollable page.</li> It was just an example of one way to overcome the problem of having all seperate pages, then requiring them to enter all data again. > <li>Fitt's law - it is easier to hit a Next button that to manipulate > a scroller - it is larger.<br> Alan's law - Sun either fixes their short comings or continues as-is. -- Alan DuBoff - Sun Microsystems Solaris x86 Engineering - IHV/OEM Group
