RE: Creating new "files" in Blaze

[Fred Ridder <docudoc -at- hotmail -dot- com>]

Scott wrote:


> Paradigm shift.
> 
> From file based, to topic based. Flare and Blaze don't have a File 
> creation. For someone who is searching how to make a new file, since 
> that is how documents are made in 99.999999999% of other tools, is 
> missing and won't be found. Your documentation glosses over that, and 
> doesn't make it clear beyond a shadow of a doubt what the shift is.


Sorry, Scott, but you're off base with your assertion about "new file" being ubiquitous terminology. Consider the Office 2007 suite, where there is no longer a "File" menu at all. And when you use the menu that replaced the File menu, you find commands like "New Document", "New Workbook", and "New Presentation" depending on what application you are running. Older versions of the Office tools do still have a File menu, but the "New" command never has a choice for "new file"; the command always refers to the type of document, rather than the storage container for the document (i.e. a file). 

And that same pattern is followed by most other modern applications; even though the parent menu may use the word File, the command form amking a new information object focuses on the specific type of object (document, drawing, web page, template) rather than the generic storage entity.

 

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