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Re: Australia government programming

From Sylvia Else <sylvia@email.invalid>
Newsgroups comp.misc
Subject Re: Australia government programming
Date 2021-07-13 09:16 +1000
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On 13-Jul-21 2:40 am, Rich wrote:

> Sylvia Else <sylvia@email.invalid> wrote:
>> I've sent the government an appropriate criticism of the practice of
>> just assuming that everyone knows in detail how to use an Android
>> phone.  I dare say they'll file it under NFA.
> 
> The app.  put out by the Australian Govt.  is
> likely just using the standard Android built in date picker.

It is, but that was a design decision too. They should have looked at 
the date picker, realised it was no good for an application that people 
are almost compelled to use, and done something else.

Even a "Are you having trouble setting the year? Here's how..." on the 
page would have been an improvement.

Sylvia.

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Australia government programming Sylvia Else <sylvia@email.invalid> - 2021-07-12 13:45 +1000
  Re: Australia government programming Anssi Saari <as@sci.fi> - 2021-07-12 11:01 +0300
    Re: Australia government programming Sylvia Else <sylvia@email.invalid> - 2021-07-12 18:32 +1000
      Re: Australia government programming Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2021-07-12 16:40 +0000
        Re: Australia government programming Sylvia Else <sylvia@email.invalid> - 2021-07-13 09:16 +1000
          Re: Australia government programming Bruce Horrocks <07.013@scorecrow.com> - 2021-07-15 20:44 +0100

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