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Re: bold text (was scriptingNews outline for 1/22/00)

Author:Jakob Nielsen
Posted:1/29/2000; 5:37:41 PM
Topic:scriptingNews outline for 1/22/00
Msg #:14872 (In response to 14747)
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See you at PC Forum to discuss this in person!

I will be there as well, so we can really have this debate :-)

Let me just point out one thing: Most people may indeed be willing to read DaveNet even though it does not use highlighting. If so, this would be because Dave is a far-above-average writer and because the audience is not representative for the average Web users.

Run a study of the average marketing person's writing on the average website which is accessed by average customers who are in a hurry: the scannable text will win.

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