Probably, the point of Mr. Donald Norman is: Reduce as much as possible the chance of human error... (Richmond wrote about this key concept in a previous message: affordance) http://www.jnd.org/dn.mss/affordances_and.html
"A truly collaborative system would tell me the requirements before I did the work. If there are special ways you want stuff entered, tell me before I enter it, not afterwards. How many times must we endure the indignity of typing in a long strong only to be told afterwards that it doesn't fit the machine's whims (more accurately, doesn't fit the whims of the programmer)?" Yes, that is the point: The program should guide the users and collaborate with them... effectively stopping them of making ineffective or potentially dangerous actions and guiding users in a smart way. This sounds really difficult to do. It's very difficult to stop users from doing what they want, but not impossible. It's possible, but... it's wise? and that is another difficult question to answer... Al -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/Error-Messages-Are-Evil-tp4679382p4679389.html Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ 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
