- From: Ann Navarro <ann@webgeek.com>
- Date: Wed, 09 Jun 1999 20:00:42 -0400
- To: Charles McCathieNevile <charles@w3.org>
- Cc: bbailey@clark.net, w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
At 07:55 PM 6/9/99 -0400, Charles McCathieNevile wrote: >I don't think it is quite so silly. I have spent a lot of time teaching >people to use "intuitive and easy to use" systems, because they could not >understand them without help. I think that there are features of the >graphical interface which need to be learned, in the same way as there are >features of a command line interface such as Unix or DOS which need to be >learned. The best systems are those which are most powerful and require the >smallest amount of learning in order to control that power. > >The best minds have been unable to make it otherwise. The part that was "silly" was the implied assertion that Windows are so unbelievably hard to learn compared to a Mac -- and that no one,even the "best minds" have been able to overcome that. Ann --- Ann Navarro Author: Effective Web Design: Master the Essentials Buy it Online! http://www.webgeek.com/about.html Owner, WebGeek Communications http://www.webgeek.com Vice President, HTML Writers Guild http://www.hwg.org
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