[thelist] survey says...

[sasha]

On Sat, 28 Dec 2002 15:00:23 -0700, Keith <cache at dowebscentral.com> wrote:

> Does anyone else have statistics/experience on the success or failure of
> using a Windows app interface instead of a web interface? Or any
> interface
> other than click-ity-click hop-ity-hop hyper-linking?
>
>
> Keith
> ================
> Web: http://contentEditable.com
> Email: cache at contentEditable.com
>

I believe your questions are answered by reading Flash vs HTML statistics.
If given a choice between HTML and Flash versions, I believe as much as 80%
pick HTML.  I, myself, pick non-Flash 99% of the time (the other 1% of the
time is to see if Flash actually brought anything special to the site over
pure HTML or mixed HTML/Flash, which it rarely does).

But what type interface is out there that doesn't require a user to learn
how to navigate it?

Can a "Windows app" be bookmarked?  Or searched with a search engine?  How
"easy" it is to navigate becomes worthless if people can't find your site.

Who says a Windows app is even easy to navigate?  A "Windows app" would
mean that it is built based on Windows (unless you're using the term
"windows" genericly, instead of MS Windows), which is hardly intuitive, so
calling it "easy" becomes relative because it is something users are
already familiar with after 7 years of brainwashing by Billy.  And if
that's your arguement about hyperlinks, how is this any different?

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sasha