Re: Joins on capabilities that have passed through different membranes

On 1/5/16 at 2:08 PM, [email protected] (Alan Karp) wrote:

>On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 11:46 AM, Mike Stay <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>
>>Google's UI researchers claimed to us that people would get a
>>read-only view from somewhere and then be confused when they couldn't
>>edit it, even when there was an edit button.  People don't look for
>>controls they don't expect to need.
>>
>
>I think they are too pessimistic.  You can set up things so that a Word
>document is read-only when opened from an email attachment.  The header
>says it's read only, and you get the option to save a copy when you try to
>edit.  There's a momentary jolt when you try to edit, but I bet few people
>are confused for very long.

Many Mac applications put documents into read-only mode after a 
number of days of no changes. When you try to change them, they 
pop up a dialog asking if you want a r/w version. It really 
isn't confusing.

Cheers - Bill

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