From: Benjamin R. <be...@gm...> - 2010-03-14 22:29:17
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On Mar 13, 2010, at 8:01 PM, Stuart Cracraft wrote: > I certainly disagree with this thinking. > > Bone-headed moves are bone-headed REGARDLESS of the company, ceo, or its > cult-adherents, whether Google, Apple, a banking cartel, or your local "gang". I think you misunderstood me. You seem to be implying that I am a cult-adherent, and that I think omitting bookmark sorting was a good decision simply because Apple made it. What I was saying is that a core part of what makes Apple unique is that when forced to compromise they tend to favor simplicity over more features. The more common thing is to add a feature if you think it's easy to code and might be useful to somebody, without taking the big picture into account. Hence the term, "feature creep". Software doesn't become a bloated mess overnight. > The fact remains that the misfeature of a lack of easy sorting of bookmarks and OTHER HUMAN ERGONOMICS needlessly lessens acceptance, increases the general pain and agony, and results in general anger. I think you're being a bit melodramatic here. The fact is, bookmark sorting is an infrequent activity. You'd have a better case if you could point to a series of a blog posts made over the years, lamenting the lack of automatic bookmark sorting in every new release of Safari. Bookmarks are like files: for the vast majority of users, they don't exist unless they are in the toolbar or, for really savvy users, the Bookmark menu, too. If I were making a browser I wouldn't bother spending a lot of time on tools to manipulate a collection of bookmarks because only a tiny percentage of people would use them. I do think it's a shame that Safari doesn't have better AppleScript support for manipulating the bookmarks --- by providing that they enable all sorts of sorting or things without impacting the app's usability --- but again, I don't think it's a "bone-headed" move. > There is no reason for it except to line the pockets of 3rd parties > creating secondary apps because the original designers were too lazy and arrogant to think about the common user. I think that's ridiculous, but if that is how you want to see the world, so be it. -- Ben |