Re: UI description standards

Subject: Re: UI description standards
From: <neilson -at- windstream -dot- net>
To: Michael West <mbwest -at- bigpond -dot- com>, techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2010 10:04:38 -0400

---- Michael West wrote:
> Few things annoy me more than "help" that gives me half an answer
> and fails to tell me where I can find the other half.

What about the "help" that tells you what you already know and provides no method for getting deeper info? Or (worse) there is a link for more info, but it takes you right back to where you were, or else takes you to the website advertising the product for which you need help.

--Peter Neilson, all too easily annoyed today

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