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paul@p... (Paul Prescod) writes: >You've reversed the issue of bother. When you allow any order you >"bother" the user with the responsibility of choosing an order. From >the user's point of view, the order matters unless they are told >otherwise. Hmm... I guess I just don't believe that. As a user dealing with information, I tend to prefer to keep whatever order I had for information originally. If I'm copying structured lists of numbers, for instance, having to copy columns out of order is a huge nuisance. Typing them in as they came is easier and results in fewer transpositions. Enforcing a particular order is fine if and only if I can count on my inputs - which may not come from computers - matching that order. If I have to change the order which I found most comfortable to match your choice of order, I'm a lot less happy. I don't encounter too many users who are bothered when told they can enter information or markup information in whatever order came with the information. I do encounter users who are annoyed every time someone tells them to change the order. -- Simon St.Laurent Ring around the content, a pocket full of brackets Errors, errors, all fall down! http://simonstl.com -- http://monasticxml.org
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