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From: Christian Heilmann
Date: Jan 11, 2006 1:00AM

> > 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?
>
> In my experience, Yes.
>
> They are at least aware of my widget. They often have no idea about the
> web browser preferences/tools to enable that functionality.
>
> And if the widget is made well, it can accommodate the untrained user
> and not interfere with the trained one.

That is a bit narcistic IMHO. Yes, your site might be more accessible
to that user, but there is no repeat learning experience coming from
it. If the browser controls were be more obvious - especially in MSIE
- this whole thing wouldn't be a problem at all.


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