On Thu, 15 Aug 2024 11:30:26 -0500, Lionel B. Dyck wrote: >Colin - agree 10,000% - the thumbs up/down is cute but I use the PDFs and >there is no way to report issues with a PDF. > I'll correct myself and apologize here. My complaint about PDF incompleteness was in error. The PDF was in two-up format and I failed to read the second column. Otherwise, read on.
>-----Original Message----- >From: Colin Paice >Sent: Thursday, August 15, 2024 11:22 AM > >I sometimes got replies from the ID people when I raised comments the old way. > With the thumbs up and down, I've yet to see any ofthe many comments I made >actually make it into the books. > Lately, I got an email reply concerning a Feedback from a conscientious chief developer. >I've noticed that if you are mid-comment, go to another page, eg to copy some >text, come back to the comments box, and it sometimes automatically sends your >partial comment, before you can complete it > >Also, I've reported one problem, then spotted another problem, but you cannot >raise more than one comment a day on a page, so you have to find another >version of the page.... write your comment in an editor, raise the comment, >and paste it all in. > And they give no warning of the impending lockout nor its duration. And the lockout occurs even if I Cancel rather than Send!? IBM isn't very good at UI design. They may have used a contractor. I bypass it by deleting cookies. >All in all, quite a deterrent to raising comments. >On Thu, 15 Aug 2024 at 16:30, Peter Relson wrote: > >> ... >> The official word is: >> >> Use "was this topic helpful?" for the corresponding web page, and >> describe the problem and that the problem is with the PDF. >> You can make your own choice of whether to go with "thumbs up" or >> "thumbs down" but I suspect I know what most will choose. >> "official.." Should that make us feel better? -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
