Hi Again Rod,
I forgot to mention that the app makes a folder for breaking news and saves
the URL and the reduced version of it as HTML files inside that folder. This
allows saving a hard copy along with extracting it in a future modification or
list of those apps in the program once I get to that point of writing it.
I may upload a test version today but will not have much in it. It will
just have the listing of the links on a web page along with a choice of Loading
the Page, thus saving a copy in the folder, or going to that page and not
saving a copy in the folder.
So will see if I am far enough to do so by the end of today.
Bruce
Subject: Re: Meaningless app ratings
Hi Rod,
I am working on the Breaking New app that was wanted. I could just use
clips and search them, requiring to know the Internet provider program.
So, I load the web page links and display the data inside the link at the
moment. Testing all bugs and such.
The list displays the link data then the second list is the URL which may
not be needed and annoying.
You can load that page and list it's links, or go to the web site, loading
all script stuff and maybe viruses.
I strip the script tags out, all input statements and just list the links
and data if you just select loading the page; using Alt-L hotkey.
To go to the page you hit the Alt-G hotkey.
I am doing may varieties of things and reducing it down to what works and
takes the least amount of time.
I will next load the page text as a list because some link data is before
the link surrounded by Paragraph tags normally, sometimes just header tags.
That I will do next once I get the links down to a good level.
The list allows you to at least go to a link based on the first letter of
the link data info.
Now the Breaking News wanted to look for changes of the news and alert the
person of those changes. As Chip had suggested, a pop-up message. I may do that
but may list the text instead.
I also have to add the choice of web sites to look at, along with the last
link you went to as part of the control panel features.
So, if you would like a copy of what I have at the moment I can upload a
script of it to app central for testing only.
Bruce
Sent: Monday, February 17, 2014 10:20 AM
Subject: Re: Meaningless app ratings
Hi Bruce,
Yes, thanks, but it wasn't that I was bothered because I failed the
course or something. smile It was the fact that the low rating implied
that the app doesn't completely accomplish the task for which I wrote
it, namely, to make the accessibility of a program reliable. Because it
accomplishes the task I feel an accessibility-enhancement app should do,
it should have gotten a rating of five, not two. I simply think the
person who rated it was being gratuitously nasty.
By the way, what are you working on now?
Cheers,
Rod
On 2/17/14 6:24 AM, LB wrote:
> Hi Rod,
>
> there is one person that always gives a low rating. There is always one
> person who is negative and we can not stop them.
> Ignore the rating when it is low for that person is always going to give
> one. The biggest fears are those who just want to take our email addresses.
>
> Sincerely
> Bruce
>
> Sent: Sunday, February 16, 2014 9:55 PM
> Subject: Meaningless app ratings
>
>
> Hi all,
>
> I'm not licking my wounds here, but my most recent app, Power Mixer
> Enhance, was given a rating of two out of five, with a total of one
> rating, while no comments were offered. I guess I'm wondering how we
> can encourage App Central members to rate apps, and yet have ratings
> gain a meaningful significance to people who are considering whether or
> not to use them. I know we can't force people to explain the reasons
> for their personal ratings, but then is there really any value to having
> ratings associated with apps when people can rate them on a whim without
> having to take responsibility for assigning a rating which novice users
> may assume has been assigned by those who hold authority of some kind.
> I say this only because experience has taught me time and again how
> easily people can be misled to believe that their welfare is being cared
> for when this is actually not the case. It seems to me that the current
> app rating system is a potential source of confusion at the very least,
> and, at the worst, an instrument to mislead WE users. The screen reader
> competition leaps to mind as I think about the possibility of malicious
> behaviour hurting WE users, especially in the light of GW Micro's
> partnership with Microsoft. I have seen nasty comments on the GWInfo
> list, and I have taken exception with several posters who seem to be
> attempting to strike at the Window-Eyes product by merely criticizing GW
> Micro rather than offering support to the GW Micro user community. I
> think we are well advised to remove as much confusion from the GW Micro
> website as possible, wherever it is found, and these irresponsible app
> ratings are a good case in point, since where there is no accountability
> for our opinions there is no value to be found in expressing them.
>
> Respectfully,
>
> Rod
>
>
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