8 Sep
2007
8 Sep
'07
6:24 a.m.
"Roy J. Tellason" <rtellason at verizon.net> wrote:
Worse yet, in those cases where the user interface is
entirely done in
software ("skins") it's difficult to find something without all that crap
and
that gives a basic user interface!
Some of the very-low end consumer equipment (e.g. grocery store
$20 VCR's and DVD players) actually put a few
truly functional buttons ("play", "stop") that can be used without
any menu interaction at all. Of course on a consumer DVD it is likely
to disable the buttons when the DVD content says the button must be disabled,
but that's not the UI's fault, that's the DVD licensing.
Get much above the bargain-basement stuff (like $30!)
and you're into not creeping but exploding featuritis territory.
Tim.