Re: Template open/save behavior

John McGhie [MVP - Word and Word Macintosh] wrote:
It was done because the people who did it felt that this behaviour was "More
Mac-Like".


Kinda interesting because Apple would disagree with this (at least, in part) since many of their products behave the way Word used to. E.g., AppleWorks will open a stationary template as "untitled".


And as everyone here knows, am amongst those who say it's a bug :-)

The fact that they *intended* to create this behaviour does not alter the
fact that it is a bug :-)


I'm one who prefers to call a spade a spade, a bug a bug, and a "stupid, screwed up, poorly thought out, highly misguided, and very bad DESIGN DECISION" just that :-)

The connotation of a bug is a flaw that was not intended. An unintentional side effect or deviation from what was intended analagous to fumbling something or tripping, or accidentally breaking something. Since it is a fumble due to either misunderstanding or usually a coding error, it's magnitude typically tends to be limited.

The altered "feature" being discussed was totally premeditated and spec'ed as such. That puts it into one of the "stupid, screwed up, poorly thought out, highly misguided, and very bad DESIGN DECISION" catagories IMHO. Let's give credit where credit is due :-)

Also, the term "bug" is kind of cutesy which downplays its reality as a flaw. All bugs are flaws but not all flaws are bugs. The exact nature of a flaw can usually be ascertained by what level of the company you need to go to to get it corrected. If you go to the programmer that wrote the code, show it to them, and they say "Shoot! I gotta fix that!" and they scurry away to their terminal, then it is likely a bug. If they say, "Oh, Im sorry but you'll have to submit an ECN to the VP of marketing, have it approved, submitted to the change control board, and written in for release in two years, then it was likely a stupid, screwed up..., oh well you get the picture! :-)

Thanks to one and all for letting me get that pet peeve out, I have a low tolerance for poorly spec'ed and designed software regardless of who does it (myself included).

I'm feeling MUCH better now...

:-)


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