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On Wed, 02 Mar 2005 16:24:34 -0500, David Cantrell <david@xxxxxxxx.xxx.xx> wrote: > Believe it or not, it occasionally confuses me. I can imagine how confusing it was back when these concepts were new (and when they were just that, concepts). But interfaces are built around affordance and commands. The user wants to read "down" the document. Down instantly correlates with the down key, and a backward motion on the mousewheel. While pressing up to move the text up is logical, the command is a polar opposite of the user's original intention. Same reason nobody calls it the "zero-eth" floor. Users don't see the floor as starting 0 feet above ground level. Instead they see it as the first floor they have encountered. I love talking about users and usability. :) P.S. I was told some very old buildings do it like programmers, with the floor after the ground floor being the first.There's stuff above here
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