[thelist] backslash, forwardslash, slash

At 3:05 PM +0000 3/26/00, Burns, Martin wrote:

>Even
>if they do read out FORWARDslash every damn time.


Hey, Martin

This may actually be needed.  Working every day with non-web-savvy people,
I'd bet not a week goes by that I say to someone on the phone "H T T P
colon slash slash" and hear them replying "it doesn't work!"  Turns out
that they put in backslashes instead.  Seems to be about the only
DOS-related thing they can remember, and it over-rides what they are
hearing... sometimes I've had to say to them "no, it is the slash down near
your Shift key, the one that also has the question mark on it" and they
clearly never saw it before.

The other thing like that that drives me crazy is the double-clicking of
links.  People spend all their time in Word or Powerpoint and they double
click everything.


-Jorah

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