On Tue, 10 Mar 2015 19:09:09 -0500, Shane Ginnane wrote:
>Reading Kolosu's latest admonishment to gil, I trundled through the links for
>completeness.
>The first (knowledgecentre) took minutes to load - yes *minutes*. The others
>just "popped up".
>
>Another great technological leap backwards.
>
Indeed. Recently it took me 20 minutes merely to copy-and-paste a line
each from two different manuals into an RCF concerning a third manual;
not what I'd want to download two manuals for. But in retrospect it
would have been faster.
KC is javascripted to the gills. It snatches keystrokes, even shortcuts
and takes unexpected actions, vectoring to a different page or a different
position on the current page.
The lines I wanted to copy contained anchors. Usually I can just copy
the embedding paragraph and edit in the target window. KC wouldn't
let me.
I tried to use Firefox "Find-in-page" for which FF supplies a text entry box
at the lower left of the window, but KC pops up a nav bar at bottom of
the screen, obscuring the text entry box. Similarly, I can't get to the
horizontal scroll bar at the bottom.
And I'm using an outdated OS X which provides a window resize handle
only in the lower right corner. Same nav bar problem. I switched to a
different tab; resized; switched back to KC.
When I follow a link then go back to the parent page, most sites return
to that page scrolled as I left it; KC always places me at the top of that
parent, particularly irritating when that parent is a ToC. I'm learing to
open any link in a new tab so I can return to the undisturbed parent page
Sheesh! What about ADA? How does all this play with an audio or Braille
reader? (But it's monochrome, which is accesibility-compliant.)
A challenge to IBM: Provide a script-free, frames-free, popup-free
("Classic"?) option for KC.
"Anyone who slaps a 'this page is best viewed with Browser X' label on
a Web page appears to be yearning for the bad old days, before the Web,
when you had very little chance of reading a document written on another
computer, another word processor, or another network."
-- Tim Berners-Lee in Technology Review, July 1996
http://www.anybrowser.org/campaign/
(Not quite apropos -- I suspect that no browser can deal comfortably with KC.)
-- gil
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