Re: when is it right to be wrong?

Subject: Re: when is it right to be wrong?
From: Peter Kleczka <pkleczka -at- yahoo -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Fri, 5 Apr 2002 11:54:42 -0800 (PST)


Kelly

Certainly place the user's needs ahead of
the likes of some Microsoft tome. Its
only a guide and rules were meant to
be broken (some of them anyway <g>).

Pete (pkleczka -at- yahoo -dot- com)

--- Kelly Werner <kwerner -at- eaglesoft -dot- net> wrote:
>
[snip...]
> Is it justifiable to commit a MS
> Manual of Style faux pas for
> the sake of user comprehension?
> I put the question to you, oh counsel of elders, is
> it more important to be
> proper or understood?


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