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Subject:RE: RE: Why should a tech writer learn XML? From:eric -dot- dunn -at- ca -dot- transport -dot- bombardier -dot- com To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Tue, 20 Apr 2004 12:27:17 -0400
"John Posada" <JPosada -at- isogon -dot- com> wrote on 04/20/2004 11:49:15 AM:
> Not really. I'm actually saying that maybe, base don the
> targeted user,
> the application shouldn't even use drop downs, menus, and buttons.
> However, because the code for them is no easy to use, the
> developer will
> make the user fit in that model.
Well, if your research showed that currently used methods were
inappropriate then yes, you're absolutely correct.
But even if you have determined that your app needs some new fangled
interface, you'd be a poor programmer if you didn't look to see if someone
else hadn't already implemented it first ...
And you have to agree that the original statement with which you took
offence is absolutely valid for reuse and tweaking of existing code for
the hundreds of standard behind the scenes operations and many of the
on-screen interfaces.
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