On 1/9/07, Alan Ackerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I'm sure I had a similar learning curve for IBMLink green screen 20 years ago. But I resent my learning being thrown away and being forced to learn an inferior system. Onward and downward!
Somehow it looks like "pimping" an application just does not make it any better. Often it gets worse because the new developers were less aware of how the application was used, or were too much restricted by the tool (or real life, like scalability). I'm sure there are cases where the web technology could be useful to improve the user interface of applications. I recently found that opening CP control blocks (from the VM home page) in new browser window is even more powerful than a book in your lap (using tape rings, pens and punch cards to keep track of popular pages). But you're probably lucky I never got my project going.... When I found that a PTF was ordered by putting it in the shopping basket, I tried to encourage the developers to build something like what Amazon do. Recommendations like "other users who installed this PTF also installed xyz" and forum sections "what others are saying about this APAR" I admit there's a high "april fools" part in this, but I could see some added value there. Rob
