Re: User interface suggestions

[Dick Karpinski <dick cfcl com>]

A lot of the justification for icons comes from a study which found 
them effective in a very narrow range of circumstances. When you have
fewer than five or more than ten, for instance, user testing indicates
that words do better. This is but one of the many poorly understood 
results that Jef Raskin addresses in his The Humane Interface. If you
care about these issues, you owe it to yourself to read the book.

Just incidentally, if you have zooming as a base feature, you can read
web pages designed for laptops or desktop machines on a PDA, easily.

Dick