Re: a human-eye date format everyone can love

"Kirby C. Bohling" <kbohling@birddog.com> writes:
> If you really want to make everybody happy, don't bother with
> consensus, just give everybody personal control and then you don't
> need consensus.

This doesn't really address the issue. It gives people a choice, yes,
but thus it forces them to either make a choice, or live with the
default... In which case our task is the same: to choose a good
default :-).

And as Greg Stein pointed out earlier:

> Heh. Actually, there are very good arguments for *not* allowing
> customization. There are quite a few studies that show that
> customizable UIs can be quite troublesome.

I'll happily add "personal experience" to "quite a few studies".

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Received on Tue Jun 25 01:40:37 2002