[Talk-GB] "designated" and "permissive" confuse new people

Jon Pennycook jpennycook at bcs.org.uk
Sat Oct 2 20:02:12 UTC 2021


This sounds like a good idea: "request confirmation for commonly
misunderstood options"

On Sat, 2 Oct 2021 at 19:06, David Woolley <forums at david-woolley.me.uk>
wrote:

> On 02/10/2021 18:53, David Woolley wrote:
> > I guess tools could indicate country specific assumptions, when
> > providing arrays of check boxes, and give detailed explanations
> > (although simply greying out is probably wrong, as there may be cases to
> > override assumptions - maybe greyed with and without a check mark?), and
> > request confirmation for commonly misunderstood options,
>
> Oops, I mis-edited the above when composing, and the parentheses are in
> a confusion place.  It was supposed to say:
>
> I guess tools could indicate country specific assumptions, when
> providing arrays of check boxes, (although simply greying out is
> probably wrong, as there may be cases to override assumptions - maybe
> greyed with and without a check mark?) and give detailed explanations,
> and request confirmation for commonly misunderstood options
>
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