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Posting Date: October 12, 2002
 

14 Principles of Polite Apps -- "Software should respond to your obvious needs, not just your commands. Use these 14 principles to create accommodating software."

 

  

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See also The Polite Interface or Guidelines for Dialogs

Posted by: Mac on October 14, 2002 04:11 AM

 

How much time and money does the author have? Doing everything he asks for would take a heck of a lot of memory and processing time. OK, that might be cheap in 10 years. But on the software side, it took evolution millions of years to design creatures capable of meeting most of his requirements most of the time, and 20 to 30 years for one such creature to learn something approaching the full repertoire.

Posted by: philip chalmers on October 14, 2002 01:21 PM

 

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