[Evolution] "Why I hate Outlook"

["Joseph F. Dries III" <joseph dcsquared com>]

Jamie Zawinski wrote:

> I think that either showing dimmed-out-text-to-the-right-of-the-I-beam
> or showing a drop-down-list-that-auto-updates-and-that-you-don't-have-
> to-explicitly-dismiss are both good ways of doing it.

I'd like to say that after using Outlook Express on Macintosh (a much
different beast than it's Win32 cousin) that the
"drop-down-list-that-auto-updates-
and-that-you-don't-have-to-explicitly-dismiss" option is extremely
useful. Although OE on Mac does it differently than IE5 on PC, as it
will match similar names on the same line. 

It also matches both accounts, full/first/last names, and nicknames.

I'd suggest that anyone who is looking for better UI's to emulate to
look at the Macintosh versions of M$'s products. IE5 and OE, both on
Mac, are significantly different than on Win32.

-j

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