Re: [office] Public comment #20 -- default print range in tables

[Andreas J Guelzow <aguelzow@math.concordia.ab.ca>]

On Tue, 2008-07-01 at 13:22 +0100, Dave Pawson wrote:
> 2008/7/1 Michael Brauer - Sun Germany - ham02 - Hamburg
> <Michael.Brauer@sun.com>:
> > Dave Pawson wrote:
> 
> >> The objection to leaving it unspecified has been quoted.
> >> Nasty user experience.
> >
> > User experience is always a difficult topic. Some consider it to be good
> > user experience to ask the user what to do.
> 
> Not that Michael. The end user getting a nasty shock when the application
> does something different implementations.
> 
> I don't think anyone considers that a good experience.
> IMHO it should drive all our decisions and be a first consideration.

This sounds like you are saying that there can effectively be only one
application implementation with a user interface. If the interface
behaviour of all applications using OpenDocument is the same they will
effectively be the same. This seems to contradict the idea of a
"interoperable" document format.

Andreas
-- 
"Liberty consists less in acting according to
one's own pleasure, than in not being subject 
to the will and pleasure of other people. It 
consists also in our not subjecting the wills 
of other people to our own."  Rousseau


Prof. Dr. Andreas J. Guelzow
Dept. of Mathematical & Computing Sciences
Concordia University College of Alberta