From: r coyne (duckingsnofair_at_yahoo.com)
Date: Sun Jan 04 2004 - 18:22:08 EST
Alan Horkan wrote:
[snip]
>if the developers had time to look at it
>they would either fix it or hide it from the user
>interface completely until it worked.
>The reason it was put there in the first place was to
>encourage/force/remind the original developers to fix
>it sooner rather than later but
[snip]
Whatever the original motivation, there is also a
good, user-oriented reason for such placeholders in
the GUI: They keep the user's experience more
constant from version to version. Mousework easily
becomes habitual and semi-reflex. If I am accustomed
to grab something as, say, the third item on the menu,
suddenly finding it in the fourth slot, with something
completely different where my finger wants to click,
can be disconcerting and perhaps hazardous.
Incidentally, I am not the person who started this
thread; I just put in a suggestion as it occurred to
me reading the earlier posts.
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