[Sigia-l] Elements of Documentation

[PeterV]

At 11:17 AM 6/29/2002 -0600, Donna Marie Fritzsche wrote:
>  Actually, the task-strategy might be the dominant design force.

Yes, that sounds right.

About dynamic messages, I once designed a help system where each form 
element had a help button with no content or minimal content in it (asking 
programmers to create the help button was easy, asking them to create the 
content wasn't). Clicking on help would popup a window with the help text 
for that form field *editable right there*. Then, when testing the system 
internally, we had someone go through the entire system and write nice help 
messages. Even better, we left the editing messages in, and the client 
themselves started adding help messages. Basically, add-a-note 
functionality. Worked well. I also like the idea of structured dealing with 
error and other messages.
PeterV