Re: Common Myths for the Macintosh

"Snit" <usenet@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:C4642953.BC8D5%usenet@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
"Daniel Johnson" <danieljohnson2@xxxxxxxxxxx> stated in post
JIadndH0iMWG56PVnZ2dnUVZ_oninZ2d@xxxxxxxxxxxxx on 5/29/08 2:40 AM:
Easier to add images (self-sizing to fit the template), easier to line up
with snap-guides, easier to wrap (better real-time movement... try it...
even in Word 2007 the text does not re-wrap in real time!), etc.

I was not thinking of snap lines; that's something. My copy of Word 2007 does rewrap around images in real time, but I suppose how 'real' depends on your computer's performance.

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The main trouble with the ribbon is that it is *so* different from the
previous version of Office; people who spent years learning the intricacies
of the many features suddenly got all that experienced flushed right down
the toilet.

That at it overwhelms new users - it makes getting to things very easy,
which is good, but new users feel like it is shoving all those features in
their face. And then they hit a different tab and forget that they need to
go back to the Home tab to get to the basic features.

Well, with prior Offices the problem was hiding features- they weren't "shoved in their face" enough, so users never found them. And it was still a very overwhelming program for new users.

For moderate to advanced users the frustration is that it takes more clicks
to do many things and there is more visual clutter.

I have not noticed it taking more clicks to do anything, myself. I suppose it might affect users who had more custom toolbars than you can fit into Office 2007.

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Microsoft's current 'designer-oriented' tool is Expression Web, their
'successor to FrontPage'. There are lots of other things too; Adobe
Contribute is supposed to require 'no technical experience'. There's stuff
like 'Google Page Creator', TypePad, Windows Live Spaces, and so on.

First look at Apple's info on iWeb: <http://www.apple.com/ilife/iweb/>
(click Watch video). Made for Joe User who has no idea what HTML is but
wants a website.

Expression Web: see the movie MS uses for it here:
<http://www.microsoft.com/expression/products/overview.aspx?key=web#page-top
(press the play button). They talk about things a novice would be lost
by... CSS (and its versions!), XHTML 1.0 Transitional, schemas, and on and
on... no... not even in the same class. More of trying to compete with the
pro tools (and it might do that well... I have no idea).

This comes very close to "we can't compare iWeb to Expression Web because Expression Web is better."

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Google Page Creator: an online tool... not in the same class as iWeb (I have
played with it in the past... even have this lovely page to prove it:
<http://pages.google.com/edit/brockmcnuggets/home?authtoken=220e4e77f0985961
3865562abab8dd5678788d89>)

TypePad: Blogging tool... not full website creation.

Windows Live Spaces... another online tool.

iWeb is also an "online tool" in this sense. It only works properly with ..Mac.

Okay, it has a client side component. But then again, so does Windows Live: Windows Live Writer.

On OS X there are competitors to iWeb: RapidWeaver, Sandvox, and I think
others.

Well, this is futile. You won't admit anything is a competitor to iWeb unless it is *inferior* to iWeb

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