On Tue, Jan 24, 2017 at 09:13:51AM GMT, STeve Andre' wrote: > On 01/24/17 04:08, Theo de Raadt wrote: > > > Another way to look at it is, "Let me have a look if there's anything > > > new on faq/current.html - I open the page and, *without* moving > > > forward, can see straight away if something new has been added. No? > > > Then I move on with my life without scrolling down or doing anything > > > else apart from opening the page". Given OpenBSD's rapid development, > > > new entries on faq/current.html appear quite frequently - I'm only > > > thinking of the tiny amount of time saved each time. > > > > Yes clearly I'm not considering your valuable time. > > > > > > Raf, think about the physical world. When people add things to a list > like a posting on a bulletin board, it goes at the end. People just > know to look at the end for anything new. So it is online. The effort > to scroll down is pretty small.
STeve, I've already given an example where reverse chronology is being used, another being CVS revision history, i.e. [0], so the above isn't always true. Regards, Raf [0] http://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/Makefile
