Illogical, Jim page 3
Were Mr Spock around, he would have some observations to make about some of the things that software says and does. These are not necessarily bugs but sometimes just questionable design ideas.
Computer programmers love the word error
; they love to make everything into an error
, in particular if they can suggest the user is erroneous when in fact the programmer is stupid. In this case, a little lack of foresight simply puts another dent in Microsoft’s image:
If it’s not clear, the Properties button is left enabled for a device with no properties, and a serious-looking message appears if you click it. (Hands up who’s thinking Do not press at all ever
?)
The next one is a little trickier:
Whereas iTunes’s brain-dead use of its interface really has no excuse whatsoever:
Incidentally, and I just spotted this, what is the difference between Batanga Tropical Heat 56 kbps and Batanga Tropical Heat 56 kbps?
The ColorIt! image editor has a curious idea about pixels, considering them to be non-integer quantities:
icebase.com’s newsletter management system has a bizarre treatment of e-mail formatting:
