> -----Original Message----- > From: Jeffry Houser [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, September 29, 2006 9:48 AM > To: CF-Community > Subject: Re: Lotus Notes Question > > Your response reminds me of how many people view ColdFusion.
Apples and stinking piles of crap. > I think Notes is pretty powerful for document management / workflow > applications. Unfortunately, as an e-mail client it is lacking. As a web > development platform, it is (or at least was) a poor choice. It may be powerful for a documentation management system... too bad it's sold as a PIM and collaboration tool. ;^) > Allowing to sort by subject is as easy as clicking a checkbox when > designing the view. Displaying time, also, should have been relatively > trivial for a Notes Developer. Unfortunately, I wouldn't expect that most > places would allow you to modify the mailbox template. What? You have to "design a view" to sort your email by subject? And you think that's simple? Every other email program on the planet has been able to do this by CLICKING THE SUBJECT HEADER for over 10 years. And that's far from the sole objection to this mass of offal. How come I can single click an icon in the "shortcut bar" but I must double click an icon in the workspace (even tho' the icon clearly responds to a single click)? How come when I multi-select items they're not selected? Instead I get a graphical checkbox in a column? How come the "Attachment Popup" has ellipsis next to each command when there is no more information needed to perform the task? And why the fuck is there an "Attachment Popup" in the first place? How come meeting notices are so god-damned complicated? "Do I want to delete the meeting notice from this view or remove it?" What the hell? Here are more: http://lotusnotessucks.4t.com/index.html Notes is perhaps the worst example of user interface design ever foisted upon an unsuspecting public by a major vendor. IBM, as usual, took a powerful back-end system and slathered on complexity to generate a UI for the engineers of that back-end rather than end-users. See Rational Rose and WebSphere Application Developer for more examples of this. Jim Davis ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:216378 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
