From: Paul Rohr (paul@abisource.com)
Date: Fri Oct 18 2002 - 11:24:51 EDT
At 11:24 AM 10/18/02 +0100, Rui Miguel Seabra wrote:
>On Fri, 2002-10-18 at 02:29, Paul Rohr wrote:
> > Hmm. If both Word and WordPerfect work this way, shouldn't we? That
> covers
> > 99+ percent of the word processor users on the planet, no?
>
>Yes it does cover. But that is definitely a confusing behaviour (it's
>bitten my 4r53 quite a few times). Should we propagate the errors or fix
>them (thus gaining yet another advantage point)?
I acknowledge that there are people on this list who don't like the current
behavior. Indeed, in the abstract, the proposed alternative might make more
sense.
The reality, though, is that literally **hundreds of millions** of people
are used to the other behavior. Good, bad, or indifferent -- that's what
they expect when they sit down with any product that calls itself a word
processor.
More to the point, **several hundred thousand** existing AbiWord users are
also used to the current behavior. AFAIK, very few of them are complaining,
so I'd say the weight of numbers remains on their side. Even if the
membership of this list voted 200-1 against me, I'd still not be convinced.
Like it or not, that behavior is an established standard for the product
category we're in.
Paul
motto -- you tell all those users they're wrong, I'm not gonna :-)
PS: I've had more than my 2 cents on this topic, so I'll shut up now.
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