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From: Jukka K. Korpela
Date: Jan 11, 2006 12:20AM

On Tue, 10 Jan 2006, Daniel Champion wrote:

> Some users don't
> know how to change the text size in their browser and benefit from a
> visible control.

They need to learn to use that, too, in order to benefit from it.
And it may give _less_ functionality than the browser function.

Is it useful to users to make them learn to use _your_ widget, as opposite
to learning ways that work on the billions of pages on the Web?

> - - my primary goal is to deliver the
> information the user was looking for, not to educate them in how to use
> their browser.

Fine. Still less should you stay on their way in learning to use their
browser, in text magnification or in getting to the start of the current
document.

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Jukka "Yucca" Korpela, http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/