Archive of UserLand's first discussion group, started October 5, 1998.
Re: Global Outliner?
Author: Samuel Reynolds Posted: 6/26/2000; 12:56:44 PM Topic: Global Outliner? Msg #: 18119 (In response to 18044) Prev/Next: 18118 / 18120
As Jakob Nielsen pointed out (When Bad Design Elements Become the Standard, November 14, 1999), it's what many people are familiar with, and therefore what they expect; anything else will seem wrong to someone weaned on Windows.The fact that you (or I, for that matter) can't stand Windows' tree control will cut no ice with them.
I think the best compromise would be to let the user select the display style via a settings dialog. I'll select Mac-like (or Frontier-like); my idiot brother ;-) would select Windows-like, 'cause that's "the right way."
- Sam
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