[cypherpunks]

Did you read what I wrote? I mentioned Google Maps as one of the two places I found AJAX useful.

The applications on my mom's PC do have much better UI standardization than the web does. Microsoft releases UI guidelines. alt-f4 does the same thing in every application I've used, and the menu structure is roughly the same too. Apple is even better.

[pak]

> Did you read what I wrote? I mentioned Google Maps as one of the two places I found AJAX useful.

Yes, and I was dissecting why you may have found it useful, because the same principle applies to hundreds of other situations that you may not have recognized.

> The applications on my mom's PC do have much better UI standardization than the web does. Microsoft releases UI guidelines. alt-f4 does the same thing in every application I've used

Questionable. About the only key shortcuts you can rely on are the ones that will work in your browser too. Alt-F4 will close your browser--that's what you wanted, right? Cut/copy/paste, print, etc. all work there as well...

> the menu structure is roughly the same too

Ha, you mean the invisible menus on Explorer and IE>8, the mega "office button" menu in Office 2007, the delightfully inconsistent menu bars in WMP>9...

[bad_user]

     Microsoft releases UI guidelines

Microsoft and UI guidelines in the same sentence, something doesn't compile - I would be happy if they used their own guidelines though.

     the menu structure is roughly the same too

Too bad it is getting reinvented; it happened in Office 2010 and it will happen again as people are getting tired of File -> Save; and yet again when touch screens on laptops will become the norm.

So I'm sorry for your mom, but unless she never upgrades, then she's going to have to learn new things.