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Subject:Re: (giggle) Re: Official name for the @ symbol? From:Matt Ion <soundy -at- SOUNDY -dot- ORG> Date:Thu, 22 Apr 1999 08:40:16 -0700
On Thu, 22 Apr 1999 11:19:14 -0400, Matt Craver wrote:
>But of course, certain software products from Redmond automatically and by
>default make the same assumption. This makes writing documents with
>commands that use the same symbol infuriating!
Indeed - this is one small beef I have with StarOffice: if I put an email
address in a document, it automatically attaches a mailto: link to it,
even if it isn't an HTML document. This, of course, makes the address
print out looking like a link (underlined and slightly bolded).
>Rule #1 for software design should be:
>Never assume your software is smarter than its user.
Are you kidding? Microsoft made this assumption a de facto standard, and
the vast majority of their users seem to prefer it that way.
Your friend and mine,
Matt
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