Dan Jacobson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> A> It is therefore apparent that you failed to make the change.
> Hmm, works today. Anyway,
> change "[Change URL-SPECIFICATION]" to:
> "Press [Change URL-SPECIFICATION] if you have made any changes above."
I could add more and more explanation to any of the features or
functions of any of the buttons or links in the WWWOFFLE HTML. There
is a certain amount of knowledge that is expected of the user of all
computer interfaces. A common one is that a form that allows you to
enter things and then has a button labelled "Change" or "Update" will
use the information in that form and somehow transform something. I
am leaving this obvious fact to the user's experience and not
patronising him by explaining it any further.
> A> Having seen that the URL is unchanged it would have been wise for
> A> you to go back and investigate.
>
> As far as noticing differences, with such long urls, the user won't be
> scanning for differences.
The average user won't be scanning for these changes, but *you* did
notice that there was no change. You even thought that this was worth
telling everybody but you didn't try and find out why nothing changed.
> A> It will now default to "insert entry before selected one".
>
> Or maybe some big blue "entry will go here" line sitting in the
> proposed target spot.
>
> >> By the way, of the 47 items in the box, none are especially selected,
> >> meaning the whole box is selected, perhaps.
>
> A> No, not selecting anything is very different from selecting everything.
>
> Well, we see a box with many lines all looking the same, so users
> might think that whole box is what you're talking about when you say
> "selected".
In the HTML that WWWOFFLE produces it is very clear that no items are
selected. Obviously the browser that you are using to display the
HTML pages has a poor user interface if it can confuse you whether the
items are all selected or none. You should raise this problem with
the browser people if it disturbs you so much.
> That's why you need to stick a new "will go here" target line and
> select it for us, or something.
>
> A> You pressed the button where it is clearly labelled "Insert the value
> A> above after the entry selected below" yet you failed to select an
> A> entry below. It tells you in the option that you chose that an entry
> A> must be selected from below yet you failed to do it.
>
> Being a infrequent user of web forms, if I don't see any specially
> marked lines, then I assumed you were talking about all of them.
Perhaps more training on your part will allow you to see what is
common practice in web pages so that this sort of confusion will not
occur again.
--
Andrew.
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Andrew M. Bishop [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.gedanken.demon.co.uk/
WWWOFFLE users page:
http://www.gedanken.demon.co.uk/wwwoffle/version-2.8/user.html
