Daryle Walker <darylew@hotmail.com> writes:
On 3/21/06 2:14 PM, "David Abrahams" <dave@boost-consulting.com> wrote:
Daryle Walker <darylew@hotmail.com> writes:
This is a feature that may be "kewl" for very advanced users, but it's obscure for above-average users, and detrimental to anyone else.
I'm a below-average or middling web user and for me it has nothing to do with "kewlness." Once I discovered the feature I considered it useful.
If you're "below average" in web browsing, then how did you discover the feature? Do you scrub all the text on every page? (This is very tedious, which is why making non-links or links look like the other is very bad web UI.) Did you already know from reading Joel's original message? Or was it blind luck?
Blind luck. If nobody discovers the feature, nobody is hurt, because it's not essential. Once you discover it, it's useful.
Is the feature superior than just copy & paste from the browser's input control (or status line)?
Not superior; it does something completely different. -- Dave Abrahams Boost Consulting www.boost-consulting.com