On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 2:42 PM, Nico Williams <n...@cryptonector.com> wrote: > How can you know if they'd switch it on if they don't know about it?
This is a real problem when we're talking about new features. You could disable them by default and see what happens, but users then might not learn about the new features. *Some* new features could be annoying if on by default... because they are extremely annoying anyways. Continuous spellcheck would be such a feature if it did autocorrect. But if all it does is highlight errors then it's OK. Autocorrect features are all insanely annoying to *me*, but typically it's obvious how to turn it off (because a tooltip or dialog comes up the first time it happens, say, telling you how to disable it), so I don't mind autocorrect features being on by default. Others might say that any feature that can be extremely annoying to anyone should never be on by default, but that's a low bar: every feature would have to be off by default then... Nico --
