On 12-Jan-01, Matt Sealey wrote:
>
> Hello David
>
> On 12-Jan-01, you wrote:
>
>>
>> Read http://www.vcnet.com/bms/departments/dirtytricks.shtml and
>> think again.
>
> I have read that, and I must say that I don't agree with all of it ;)
> I purposefully refuse to pay attention to any site that goes out of
> it's way to explain the flaws in anything, simply because the author
> will go out of their way to prove their site's worth.
>
No sane person will agree with 'all of it' anywhere because we are all
individuals, but they do make a lot of valid points.
> This isn't just anti-Microsoft. What's the URL of that "UI Hall of
> Shame" site? A lot of that is pure, self-indulgent bollocks, written
> to draw hits and stir contraversy, in a world where the average
> GUI is actually well written.
>
I have that page bookmarked at the office, and I find their observations
are pretty well on the mark.
> I myself couldn't see any real problem with the Quicktime 4 GUI,
> apart from the obvious dumbass features (it opens windows off
> the screen, and displays the first frame of an anim in the preview
> window: which is usually black) and certainly not the use of a
> thumbwheel control.
>
> After all, if Quicktime is wrong, MUI is wrong for using those
> little volume controls. Is MUI wrong? I doubt ANYONE here would
> agree, least of all the programmers :)
I haven't seen many useful programs in MUI that use them, and I gave up
on the one tool I D/Led that had four for some settings as I found them
simply unusable.
>
>> BTW, MSIE is "free" because that way they don't have to pay
>> royalties to Spyglass (the one they licensed Mosaic from).
>
> Okay, but since when has that been an outright no-arguments
> anti-competitive practice? People do this all the time..
>
No single event will prove that outright, but a whole series does
statistically
point an observer to that conclusion
> Anyway, off-topic, the end ;)
Aw, shucks.
>
> Thanks
--
Bob Q
Rocket Scientist during the day,
Amiga Afficionado all night.
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