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[Julian Edwards <julian.edwards@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday 26 October 2011 14:17:04 Huw Wilkins wrote:
> On 25/10/11 22:38, Julian Edwards wrote:
> > Personally, I hate hate hate magically appearing and disappearing links.
> > I'd vote for making them disabled rather than invisible.
> 
> Right, the key thing there is "magically appearing and disappearing
> links ". I dare say you use sites all the time that hide controls and
> don't even notice because the context is clear.

Well my problem is that I assume different roles.  Sometimes I forget that 
something is (buildd) admin only, for example and point it out to other people 
and we get confused when they cannot see it.

So as you say, context is everything.