Re: User Design Issues, principle, and the whole philosophy (who is y our customer, anyway?

[Jon Stevens <jo...@latchkey.com>]

on 9/1/2000 11:41 AM, "Dickerson, Monty W." <Mo...@viatel.com>
wrote:

> If your users are "wimps" who can't deal with { and } and prefer english
> #begin and #end, then should you turn them in to programming geeks?  Or
> cater to a more natural way of expressing things.
> 
> Thank God our graphic designers don't think like us!  Cuz if they did,
> all the web would look like *our* sites!?!

My point is that 6 months ago (or whenever #begin/#end was added) users
didn't even have the concept of those tags and really didn't complain about
using { and }. They would only complain about it now that they have seen
them, not because they are "wimps" and don't understand {}. What they did
complain about was that {} broke their javascript parsing.

People who write in English understand the concept of using the "(" and ")"
characters to enclose something. Because of that, changing that to be "{"
and "}" to enclose something is not a major mind jump in my opinion.

I personally think that #begin and #end are extremely ugly syntax for simply
enclosing something. It is also 8 characters of extra typing.

-jon

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