On Thu, 2006-06-08 at 19:24 +0100, Ted.Harding@nessie.mcc.ac.uk wrote:
Getting it right is always most important. It's essential. Compatibility and familiarity have their uses, for those who are familiar with what it tries to be compatible with, but can be stumbling blocks for others; and when the "familiarity target" tends to intefere with getting it right then there should be secodn thoghts.
I guess we can take the view that if MS are prepared to change the UI this dramatically (there is no obvious way to enable classic mode that I can see) then it's ok for alternatives to offer a different interface as well.
Maybe it's not too much to suggest that there whould be two user selectable modes: "getting it right" mode, and "familiarity" mode.
Maybe they should be called "fixed" and "broken"