|
From: | Tupshin Harper |
Subject: | Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: revision control for documents (was plug-in foo) |
Date: | Tue, 23 Dec 2003 11:45:02 -0800 |
User-agent: | Mozilla Thunderbird 0.5a (20031216) |
Tom Lord wrote:
> From: Thomas Zander <address@hidden> > The point being; if you are lying to the user [...] your > application should be upgraded to user expectations. Somewhere around the time of the original Macintosh, the idea that rather than _hiding_ markup languages from users we might _explain_ them to users fell out of fashion. Not for any good reason, mind you: the mac was far less capable a tool and experience had begun to be accumulated that non-programmer users could grok mark-up just fine. Nevertheless, in the decades since, the effort has primarily been to "protect" users from a good understanding of what the heck they're doing and the enhanced capabilities that would result from that understanding. -t
I find this attitude somewhat confusing. Using myself as an example: I like markup (yes...i like XML...but let's not get into that) I frequently work in editors where your primary view is the raw markup.BUT...when I'm doing word processing, I want markup to *get out of the way*. Yes, it's nice to have the option to look at it when I really need to, but I would consider it a failure of my word-processor if I felt a need to look at it.
-Tupshin
[Prev in Thread] | Current Thread | [Next in Thread] |