Re: textedit...
- From: "LawsonE" <nospam@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 12:59:40 -0700
"William F. Adams" <willadams@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:1128083219.892148.95050@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> LawsonE said:
>>There's an option to convert it to pure text BEFORE saving. And yes, I
>>agree
>>its bizarre. Bad UI design, IMHO.
>
> No. Bad UI design is allowing the user to save something in a file
> which doesn't reflect what's currently on-screen.
>
> c.f. TextEdit's requirement of conversion to plain text and the
> accompanying transformation of appearance on-screen before saving as
> plain text with the myriad dialog warnings in Microsoft Office about
> certain file formats not supporting all features.
We agree to disagree. Since "plain text" obviously has a specific meaning,
requiring a two step process: converting to plain text, thereby losing all
the original formating even if you wanted to keep it in the document, then
saving to plain text, which is really a FILE format, seems more than simply
a redundant measure that makes sure the user knows that they're saving to
plain text.
Simply allowing "save as" with the option to choose "plain text" in all
cases seems far more logical, straightfoward, transparent, and faster, to
me...
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