3 Aug
2006
3 Aug
'06
1:16 p.m.
Zane H. Healy wrote:
I find it distracting, to be honest. Plus it seems to have the effect of
encouraging people to be lazy and no do any sort of proof-reading of their
work before submitting; they rely on spell-checking as they go and so don't
bother doing any kind of proper final check.
(Oh, my other pet-peeve is things that 'suggest' text for you based on things
that you've typed before, often in a totally different context - it's
distracting having things pop up on screen randomly whilst working)
Yup. Like
constantly telling me I misspelled something instead
of letting me ASK you if I've misspelled anything (or, compromise,
*remind* me to ask you...)
I've got to disagree with you on this one. Done correctly, this is the
single greatest computer innovation of the 21st Century! It is the one
thing that I really miss when I don't have it. I like it when I get the
squigly line under a word I've misspelled and can right-click to bring up a
list of possible correct spellings. More importantly, it has definitely
helped to improve my spelling. > How many people TODAY look at images of crumpled
paper flying
> into a wastebasket and go "Ooooo.... Ahhhhh...."?
.. although some form of feedback's obviously needed in some places. Little
animations like that just seem like overkill though (particularly as I'm not
even sure that they're always tied to the process that they represent - I'm
sure there are cases where the animation can play forever whilst the process
doing the work has happily fallen over and gone into an endless loop.
Incorrect feedback's worse than no feedback at all)
cheers
Jules