[thelist] RE: Adobe bashing

M. Seyon evoltlist at delime.com
Wed Nov 17 09:23:05 CST 2004


Message from ANDREA STREIGHT (11/17/2004 03:59 AM)
>Honestly, I don't exactly know why when that little monster Adobe Acrobat
>starts running, and I click on "Decline", but it won't respond to "Decline",
>and keeps trying to run on my system, I don't know why that happens.

Ah, then that's a perfectly good premise on which to blame Acrobat.


>Is it the fault of my IE browser? Maybe. I don't know.

Quite likely, yes.


>Am I the only one who has experienced this PDF system hijacking?

You're certainly the first I've heard complain of it though I'm sure 
there's bound to be at least one other somewhere in the world.


>If a file is PDF, please label it as such, prior to user clicking on it. I
>have seen Flash Paper offered as an alternative to PDF, see Usability
>Special Interest Group newsletter for example:

Again, how is this a failing of Acrobat?

I'd more readily say it's:
a) an oversight of the developers to properly identify the file.
b) a lack of attention on the part of the user to look at the extension 
before clicking the link, which is surely not a very secure way to browse 
the internet


>Maybe a better word than "useless" would be "annoying" or "dysfunctional" or
>"unresponsive to Decline command" or "system hijacking".

Maybe your computer's broken but, like 'pilot error', it's easier to just 
place the blame on Acrobat.


>The useit.com Jakob Nielsen article I had in mind in particular was "PDF:
>Unfit for Human Consumption".

Yes, that's the same one I referenced.



>In other words:
>
>Unwanted, persistent PDF files act almost like a virus.

..."on your computer".

regards.
-marc

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