{"id":1371,"date":"2005-06-14T14:37:50","date_gmt":"2005-06-14T12:37:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vizZzion.org\/blog\/2005\/06\/error-messages-and-re-educating-users\/"},"modified":"2005-06-14T14:37:50","modified_gmt":"2005-06-14T12:37:50","slug":"error-messages-and-re-educating-users","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vizZzion.org\/blog\/2005\/06\/error-messages-and-re-educating-users\/","title":{"rendered":"Error messages and re-educating users."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What just came to my mind when reading a report of a user who had problems switching from<br \/>\nWindows XP to Linux is that a lot of switching users have to be re-educated with respect to reading<br \/>\nerror messages. I see lots of people who seem to have developed a reflex to click away error<br \/>\nmessages as fast as possible. While that might be a useful strategy on Windows, these people should<br \/>\nconsider actually reading errormessages since they in most cases tell what&#8217;s wrong. That seems to be<br \/>\nquite bad about Windows &#8211; useless errors messages.<\/p>\n<p>\t\tSo my <em>advice of the day<\/em> for newly converted users: <strong>Read the error<br \/>\nmessages<\/strong> rather than trying to get rid of them as fast as possible. They might aswell tell<br \/>\nyou what&#8217;s wrong and what you can do about it. Besides, asking someone to help you only saying<br \/>\n&#8220;<em>It showed some error!<\/em>&#8221; is not likely going to help.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What just came to my mind when reading a report of a user who had problems switching from Windows XP to Linux is that a lot of switching users have to be re-educated with respect to reading error messages. I see lots of people who seem to have developed a reflex to click away error&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/vizZzion.org\/blog\/2005\/06\/error-messages-and-re-educating-users\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Error messages and re-educating users.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\" aria-hidden=\"true\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kde"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vizZzion.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vizZzion.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vizZzion.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vizZzion.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vizZzion.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vizZzion.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1371\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vizZzion.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vizZzion.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vizZzion.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}