Re: [Usability]Some HIG comments

[Dave Camp <dave ximian com>]

On Fri, 2002-08-23 at 14:54, Seth Nickell wrote:
> > There should be a clear way of marking iffy situations.  There are a
> > lot of caveats mentioned in the various UI concepts (things like "be
> > careful when doing this" or "only do this when...").  Things like this
> > should be prominently flagged.
> 
> Would <warning> tags be too strong? These would seperate the statements
> from the rest of the text and put a little warning image next to them.

I don't think they'd be too strong.  Caveats are pretty damned
important.  I'd argue that they should be as noticable as headings, so
that someone glancing over the document doesn't take a heading as a
no-questions-asked endorsement of a concept.

-dave