Konfabulator, Javascript & Hyperbole

I was tinkering with Konfabulator recently, now that it's supported on Windows.  Not having much more than the first clue what was involved in widget development, I started with the widget creation tutorial document.

This bit of introductory text struck me funny:

JavaScript is known as a scripting language, meaning that it does not need to be compiled by the user to be run.  It is also much simpler than many other coding languages, making it a perfect choice for any average computer user to learn.

Looks like someone got a bit carried away :-)

Now since this isn't a for-sale product, they only run the risk of an irritating people like my mother-in-law; an “average computer user“ who's comfortable browsing the web, sending the occasional email, and (when she's feeling daring) using Quicken to balance her checkbook.

But still, there's not much point to such gross over exaggeration.  Over-promising and under-delivering is pretty much the opposite of how I like to approach things.  Along those lines, this article on the Marketing of High Tech Products: Lessons in Customer Focus From the Marketplace includes (among other things) an interesting analysis of how over exaggeration in marketing hurt Apple's Newton PDA.