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There was a computer company, I think it was Compaq, who received a statistically significant number of tech support calls asking where the any key was.
'Intuitive' clearly means different things to different people.
In the past, we used to do these things with special notations such as BNF. [Angle brackets are so cool!]
Now, we use the same description for a letter box and the letters posted through it.
In the somewhat less distant past, such things have been done in computer manuals using different fonts. This might be a good thing to return to: it at least gives a hint of difference to those who are less computer literate.
There was a computer company, I think it was Compaq, who received a statistically significant number of tech support calls asking where the any key was.
ReplyDeleteIf you bought a Netgear router some years ago (don't know about now) you would find that the factory set password was exactly that - "password".
ReplyDelete'Intuitive' clearly means different things to different people.
ReplyDeleteIn the past, we used to do these things with special notations such as BNF. [Angle brackets are so cool!]
Now, we use the same description for a letter box and the letters posted through it.
In the somewhat less distant past, such things have been done in computer manuals using different fonts. This might be a good thing to return to: it at least gives a hint of difference to those who are less computer literate.
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My particular favourite is a page containing the text "This page has been deliberately left blank"!!
ReplyDeleteEr where do you want me to type it? It didn't work on the screen. Shall I try in comments?
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