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Subject:Re: Pezzini on DEC usage of help: From:Jonathan Price <jonprice -at- AOL -dot- COM> Date:Tue, 12 Apr 1994 23:16:52 EDT
Re: Pezzini on DEC usage of help:
Agh! If all you offer as help is context sensitive info, then all I get is
information about the elements of your interface. But what if I want to know
how to do something, and don't know which element to use? Do I have to turn
to the book reader? This is torture. Book readers just drive me crazy. How
long, oh how long do I have to wait to get to the right page? No matter how
you hypertext it up, you are pouring fudge on my screen.
Better: put all the information that you have into help, so I can look up
anything quickly. The book readers ought to be called: Slow Access. Or 19th
Century Reading by Candlelight.
Jonathan Price
Communication Circle
918 La Senda, NW
Albuquerque, NM 87107
