-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Timothy Miller wrote: > On 6/7/06, Hamish Marson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I had a quick look at the forums... Didn't find anything. I'm >> going to try downloading again tonight when I get home & see what >> happens... Maybe it got corrupted... Although I would have >> expected an error if it had... >> > > You'd think. :) I have become jaded about that sort of thing. > General usability guidelines say that there should never be a > silent failure. If something goes wrong, something which isn't > fixable automatically, that should be reported to the user. But > Free Software and commercial software alike are absolutely horrible > about this. Yeah... Maybe I'm a bit more paranoid than most people, but I like to think I put at least a message indictating what the problem is in my code... Many new programs I still come across have no output when they work OR fail... Mainly I think because some people just assume why wouldn't it work... Maybe they need more experience with badly behaved software before we let them program in the real world perhaps :) (Or it could just be a new thing... At uni i always had it drummed into me about checking returns codes & reporting errors... You lost marks if you didn't adhere to the rules... I think many programmers today just don't have that background...
But I digress... H -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFEhvWm/3QXwQQkZYwRAiN8AKDNehYl9kPOLbJBcDTs3wCb3vwhdgCg1NrZ FvfvodOs9BML00IjDYAui10= =UtRL -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Open-graphics mailing list [email protected] http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com)
