2007/9/10, Michael Baierl mail@mbaierl.com:

Thomas Bruederli wrote:

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Joel Clermont wrote:

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The biggest problem people moan about is multi-select. It is not intuitive to use a key modifier like Shift or Control to select multiple messages.

What is not intuitive in this behavior? All apps behave like this.

Windows Apps: yes. Web apps: no. Users are not used to use Strg+Shift on Webapps and most users are not even used to that on Windows - they just use the mouse. Watch your mum and you will see ;)

I kind of expected this answer... But nevertheless web apps are starting to replace desktop applications and also copy the way to control them. Yahoo! Mail found a nice way to support both: they have checkboxes (not real ones but HTML elements) but also allow to multi-select messages using shift/ctrl.

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