In Code Complete Steve McDonnel accuses us nerds of being impolite and nerdy in the way we interrupt the users with dialog boxes. Popping up a dialog box, demanding an immediate response, is often the easiest course of action for the programmer, but often unnecessarily disruptive for the user. Firefox's find and popup blocker dialogs which appear at the bottom and the top of the page are a step in the right direction. It's a bit defeatist to claim Linux has to ape bad interface elements from Windows to attract the ignorant.
Considering most people use Windows it makes sense to initially develop a program for Windows
Web sites, particularly government web sites, should be written to conform to open web standards, not to the idiosyncracies of particular any particular browser.
attacking Afghanistan was a reasonable thing to do
Actually the Americans should have gone to the international court, like Nigarcua did to defend themselves against United States sponsored terrorism in their country (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicaragua_v._United_S tates"> Nicaragua v. United States). Like Nicaragua they would have won. Unlike Nicaraguas victory the verdict in this case could have been upheld.
By the way, the assaults on Afagnistan and Iraq aren't wars in any proper sense of the word. These people had practically no defences. Slaughter is a more appropriate word. The military personnel in these countries were systematically slaugthered. You may think that's fair, but lets call it what it is: Slaughter.
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In Code Complete Steve McDonnel accuses us nerds of being impolite and nerdy in the way we interrupt the users with dialog boxes. Popping up a dialog box, demanding an immediate response, is often the easiest course of action for the programmer, but often unnecessarily disruptive for the user. Firefox's find and popup blocker dialogs which appear at the bottom and the top of the page are a step in the right direction. It's a bit defeatist to claim Linux has to ape bad interface elements from Windows to attract the ignorant.
Web sites, particularly government web sites, should be written to conform to open web standards, not to the idiosyncracies of particular any particular browser.
Actually the Americans should have gone to the international court, like Nigarcua did to defend themselves against United States sponsored terrorism in their country (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicaragua_v._United_S tates"> Nicaragua v. United States). Like Nicaragua they would have won. Unlike Nicaraguas victory the verdict in this case could have been upheld.
By the way, the assaults on Afagnistan and Iraq aren't wars in any proper sense of the word. These people had practically no defences. Slaughter is a more appropriate word. The military personnel in these countries were systematically slaugthered. You may think that's fair, but lets call it what it is: Slaughter.
> if ad blocking becomes standard in popular browsers, that will be the end of free content on the web.
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