Re: [Usability] Merge Open/Save (was "Re: Save Icon")

[Stefan Kost <ensonic hora-obscura de>]

Hi Kirk,

Kirk Bridger wrote:
> Matthew Paul Thomas wrote:
>
> > On 9 Feb, 2006, at 1:36 AM, Joachim Noreiko wrote:
> >
> > > ...
> > > What about "save because there might be a power cut"? Or "save 
> > > because I'm going to make a coffee and my cat might jump on the 
> > > keyboard"? or just "save because I'm paranoid about crashes"?
> > > ...
> >
> >
> >
> > Those are excellent examples of why saving should be something done 
> > automatically by the computer, not by humans. The computer will always 
> > remember to save; the human won't.
>
>
> But the computer can't tell that the cat typed the last few paragraphs 
> of text, and so it should not be saved automatically.  Perhaps the cat 
> moved the cursor after adding a few letters here are there, and the 
> owner never notices it.  Auto-save kind of adds work for the user in 
> this case.
>
Oh the computer can know, that it was the cat:
http://www.bitboost.com/pawsense/ :)

Stefan