In a message dated 9/26/00 9:33:14 AM Mountain Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> It's a guideline. A GUIDELINE, NOT a LAW. You don't have to stay
> completely
> inside them, if your client demands otherwise.
>
> Yes yes yes, I know, I'm a very bad person, but I work for a corporation,
> and what basics the client wants, the client gets. My clients are NOT all
> Palm users. 95% of them can't write their names in Graffiti. However,
> their IQ's are NOT below 100. They find the way to exit their program
> that they want to. There are times when you are obliged as a developer to
> say "wait a minute, do you really need to network hotsync 5 times a day?"
> and there are times where you just say "sure, no problem".
>
> It's so unbelievably amazing to me...I wonder exactly how many developers
> actually say to their clients "we're sorry, we can't do that, because
adding
> two lines of code is damaging to the Palm Philosophy". That's really a
> naive way to do business, IMO.
>
> Arrgh, this entire thread is a complete and utter waste of my time. If
> my client wants something, they'll get it.
>
> If I were to argue that adding something as simple as an exit button
(which
> IS negligable, and it's quibbling over bread crumbs, IMO) was a means to
> uphold a client's standard pre-existing process...no one would care about
> that. You see, it "deviates" from the Palm methodology.
>
> Our clients are working in a warehouse. Our vendor doesn't train any of
> them. Tapping a button with a house on it isn't as obvious as tapping a
> button that says "EXIT" on it.
>
I say.....
RIGHT ON!!!! FIGHT THE POWERS!!!!!!!!! You are totally right there. But if I
may ask one small thing, whats with the "IMO" and "IMHO" stuff? I guess I'm
just not 'down' enough to figure it out.
( }#^} Ritz
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