Posts by stewski 53 publicly visible posts • joined 7 Aug 2010
It should be titled "This is the way I wish the USA worked."
There I corrected that for you.
Although this case is of course within the USA, posters should realise the broken patent system is certainly not how the WORLD works, you'll find many nations don't follow the silly USA model.
Even the UK isn't that silly (yet).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_patents_under_United_Kingdom_patent_la
I'm no fan but I believe Brown did get an agenda of publishing Ordnance Survey and other publicly funded data sets available via the web and Semantic Web.
On the flip side he pushed the awful digital economy bill through the washup to.
As for the other stuff from Iraq (he told paxman it was to support the UN which is amazing double speak) to the economy I don't blame the WWWF for not having an opinion on those.
@John Carter 1
You clearly do overstate the problems of context sensitive menus.
You are throwing Fitts law around in UI design but you neglect to explain the premise:
The time to acquire a target is proportional to both its distance (from your current pointer position) and the size of the target. Indeed the edges and even more so corners of the screen are usually considered infinite targets (corners both X and Y).
With that in mind: as screen resolutions increase and multi monitor setups become more common the apple approach is arguably becoming less advantageous.
While we're suggesting preferred environments from a usability perspective gnome makes good use of all four corners and applications are asked to provide consistent context sensitive menus that are duplicated elsewhere yet provide a convenient short cut.
And the diatribe on wizards (which can be a pain but are clearly not defective by design) and status bars is utter tosh!
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