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When I think of something being transparent to the user, I think of it
as an operation that may be necessary for the user to complete other
tasks and it happens without the user's knowledge or intervention.
-Judd Spitzer
<snip>
>I know I come into the game from the techie side rather than the
end-user side, so I tend to see
>things a little differently.
>To me a "transparent" task is one that the user can see
>through - that it does not get in the way of the task at
>hand.
>If I told a developer that a process was "transparent to
>the user", I would be saying that the process could be implemented
without inconveniencing the
>user or taking time away from the user's primary task.
>Makes perfect sense to me. But I guess that's because I'm weird.
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