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Subject:RE: Tab and Subtab? From:"Combs, Richard" <richard -dot- combs -at- Polycom -dot- com> To:'kafkascampi' <kafkascampi -at- gmail -dot- com>, Michael West <mike -dot- west -at- bigpond -dot- com> Date:Sat, 24 Apr 2010 11:07:32 -0700
Kafkascampi wrote:
> Not sure why you want to offer a suggestion for or condemnation of
> language
> in an app you haven't seen.
Um, maybe because you solicited such suggestions?
If you only wanted feedback that reinforced your preconceived notions, you should have said so.
I agree 100% with Jessica, who suggested that you stop naming everything and refer to their labels, and with Michael, who suggested that you stop documenting the software and instead document its use.
But you probably didn't want to hear that...
Richard G. Combs
Senior Technical Writer
Polycom, Inc.
richardDOTcombs AT polycomDOTcom
303-223-5111
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