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On Mon, 2005-12-05 at 09:50 +0100, James Fuller wrote: > Just getting to the critical mass of functionality in an application > lets say like 'notepad' is heroic in my opinion, Word is massive, > emacs....well I wont even start. The upside is that a 'dumb' user can use emacs... nearly Word without consideration for the 80%. I'm sure Len can quote properly that saying about 'easy for easy stuff' doable for hard stuff. > > I think that multiple overlapping interfaces/functionality is one way to > ensure adoption/usage across a broad spectrum of users with > software....so the argument could be that everyone gets a measure of > bloatware for the common good (an analogy could be made with > biodiversity and everyone/thing living walking around with lots of > useless genetic code). Is that how M$ have filled the coffers? I don't know. > > for my 2 crowns, i generally agree with Uche O. comments and would like > to always be able to escape to my own home cooked xml format for whatever. +1 When you need to. I was thinking of the simple report the 'note' to a colleague the 999999 uses we all have for text (and occasionally bits of graphics) each day. I need to let X know about Y. Word used to be the application that sufficed for that. (I now use emacs) > > as a seperate thought....how long will it be before we start seeing > automated composition of documents for human consumption...not talking > newspages on Yahoo, or rss aggregation; we have a 10 finger speed limit > on the creation of documents currently...with magnitude increase of data > (live and historical) I can see a tipping point where are at a minimum > assisted authoring may come more into effect. How does this affect the > authoring experience within an application like Word? I don't know Jim. I don't know. When someone integrates them all into (Erics definition of) web 2.0? If I have to fight the app for stupid numbering the way I want, I won't bother. If it just works, I'll use it. I don't have the time to become a Word expert. ... elisp just *might* be worth learning. -- Regards, Dave Pawson XSLT + Docbook FAQ http://www.dpawson.co.uk
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