- From: John Boyer <JBoyer@PureEdge.com>
- Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2004 09:23:56 -0800
- To: "Anders Rundgren" <anders.rundgren@telia.com>, "w3c.xmldsig ML" <w3c-ietf-xmldsig@w3.org>, "Gregor Karlinger" <gregor.karlinger@iaik.at>
Yes, it is very interesting how the marketing mind works, turning a limitation into a desirable feature. They're really good at manufacturing need. :-) About 10 years ago we had a doc writer who went on to marketing greatness (someplace else), but the doc writer had this tendency of occasionally finding a bug then writing about it as a wonderful feature rather than realizing it wasn't intended. The particular bug that comes to mind was my own. I was doing something that was not quite right with windows 3.1 color palette management and the occasional video card took note of it. So, instead of getting a directory menu that was consistently a steel blue-grey color, this doc writer would get a different color every time the program was launched. So, into the manual went this long spiel about the wonderful, cheery, background color mutation strategy. Even called it the 'rainbow effect.' Ironically, the name ended up being appropriate as it described all the colors I turned when I saw the documentation. :-) John Boyer, Ph.D. Senior Product Architect and Research Scientist PureEdge Solutions Inc.
Received on Friday, 12 March 2004 12:24:30 UTC