Re: User Experience Engineering

[Nicholas Bailey]

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On 5 Jan 2006, at 9:31 pm, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote:
> Keep in mind that every 10 minutes we save you on doing system 
> administration, typically takes us 8 hours of debugging, fiddling with 
> cross-compilers and testing.   Add to that that Windows by far is our 
> least favorite platform: I'll go on record saying that the entire 
> development team actually loathes and despises Windows.
Hear hear! (not that I'm on the development team, I hasten to add) If 
you have to use Windows, Linda, and you really don't since you could 
install Linux over the top of it on almost any Windows-compatible 
hardware you actually control, the best thing to do is to not to use 
any Microsoft applications if you can avoid it. Install new web 
browsers, editors, everything. I speak from bitter and current 
experience as I'm trying to write a web site with css that actually 
works on Internet Explorer: it flagrantly mis-implements the web 
standards and provides Microsoft-only "specials" to "fix" them.

The Scilab experience is instructive in this case. They spent ages 
making a Windows version, then when it eventually just about started to 
work, all they got from the Windows community was complaints about 
missing functionality (and in contrast to the other communities, no 
contributed code, in spite of the allegedly large user-base).

Caltech alumni especially should be aware of this. Tut tut. :)

Nick/.
http://cmt.gla.ac.uk

> If you're concerned about user-experience, I recommend you to choose 
> between any of the following options
>
> - switch over to MacOS
>
> - sponsor the development team for Windows usability work
>
> - volunteer time to help engineer the Windows release
>
>
> Regards,
>
> --
>  Han-Wen Nienhuys - address@hidden - http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanwen
>
>
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