I think your summary hits the nail on the head. "They think they know best."
We are living in times where there is a common thinking that life--at both societal and individual levels--should be engineered by experts. I don't want to get caught up in that. When I reflect on my own designs I hope they result in good guidance and simplicity but include a richness that allows a market place of styles. Do my designs reflect caring, respect, and humility? I'm pretty weird when it comes to the right way to do things and I don't want that to become preachy. Dar On Jul 31, 2012, at 5:42 PM, Scott Rossi wrote: > I like this thread (and will try to keep opinions short...). > > IMO, long term, I don't think the OS developers care about legacy/power > users -- as you say, they think they know best. Many people have carelessly > tossed around some variation of the Gretsky quote "Don't skate to where the > puck is, skate to where the puck will be." The OS developers all think they > know where the puck will be, but leave the legacy users questioning whether > they're even playing the same game. I have no clue, but have to think there > must be *some* logic involved somewhere. > > Re: Flash, I totally agree. I've said before, I think Adobe made a mistake > with ActionScript 3 and its complexity, because they killed the > approachability of Flash and pushed it toward seasoned programmers (in an > attempt to change its perception as a "real" programming environment, > according some accounts). Colin may have a different take on this. Of > course, the point is now moot. > > In any event, to bring this slightly back on topic, I'll also say again that > I think the Flash paradigm had it right: describe objects with low weight > vector information, and render the results with bitmap style effects. > LiveCode can more or less do this now, and hopefully, with some > enhancements, we'll be able to take advantage of this structure and continue > playing the game with the OS developers, regardless of screen resolutions or > missing menu options. > > But keep it easy to use. And get it done tomorrow. And fix the bugs that > are important to me. :-) > > Regards, > > Scott Rossi > Creative Director > Tactile Media, UX Design > > > > Recently, Chipp Walters wrote: > >> I was talking with Chris about this base on: >> >> 1) Mountain Lion now tries to do automatic tasks, like download stuff when >> the lid is closed and you're on battery power, thus killing your battery >> without you knowing. And now with Gatekeeper complaining about anything you >> try and install-- and wt–, iCloud is just amazingly bad. Docs in iCloud now >> automatically 'sync' but if you open a Mac doc created on on an iPad, it >> will lose formatting, then SYNC, and kill all the formatting from the >> original-- and amazingly there's no cloud backup (like DropBox does). And >> nope, there's still no "Save As.." because Apple believes they know better >> than us when to invoke that command. All in all-- stuff to be wary of. >> >> 2) Win 8 is having similar huge issues. They're trying to 'out think' the >> users creating all sorts of problems. Reviews for Windows 8 seems to be >> more bad than good. >> >> 3) We're starting to 'remember' the 'last great version' of programs like >> Photoshop, etc.. >> >> So, I'm wondering... how long before we quit upgrading everything and start >> sticking to a single legacy OS and/or programs? For instance, even though I >> own the latest version of Flash, I still enjoy using Flash 5 for >> diagramming, wireframing and creating 'blueprint roadmaps.' At what point >> do the OS'es get so much in the users way that they're no longer good for >> us legacy power users? >> >> Just wondering... not predicting.. yet. > > > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
