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MS Internet Explorer v10 has usability suckage

• benologist 13y ago
  How did JavaScript get disabled? And what makes you think the problem was IE vs your or your grandma's unfamiliarity with IE?
  • cl8ton 13y ago
    Apparently it came that way from Dell, helped her order it last week, it arrived today, she plugged it in and clicked IE and the first place she ended up said to enable Javascript.
    • benologist 13y ago
      That's shitty but the only annoying thing IE ships with by default is the tutorial to set up stupid things, and on servers a high security whitelist-only mode on by default.
      • cl8ton 13y ago
        I really wish MS had a 'Trust me, turn all security off' or some variance of the same option.
  • jzs 13y ago
    I would mean it's never the users fault. In most cases it's poor design. Poor interfaces. I'm not an apple fanboy but apple has clearly done something right in that ballpark. If the user can't figure out how to use your software it's back to the drawing board and come up with a solution that the user understands. On the same time it's a battle on which users you want to please the most. In the ideal world you have an interface that don't get in the way of either first time users or power users. But that is a pretty tough nut to crack. Most non technical users has no clue what javascript is so asking them to turn on something they don't know what is in an unfamiliar environment is an uphill battle. Especially if it's hidden in some options in an options window full of tabs that has funny names for a first timer.
    • benologist 13y ago
      All interfaces are poor to people who don't know anything about the computer in front of them! The other day I pointed out to the mother of my daughter she can actually type in the address bar instead of googling every domain lol.
• frozenport 13y ago
  Also your G'Ma has usability suckage. Also old people and computers don't mix bra and you should probably call your G'Ma more often.