Rod Plunkett wrote: > Yes, Microsoft is like "Bell Telephone" was in the 1970s. You can't > fight the phone company. Well, you can, if you can do without a > telephone. You couldn't even buy a telephone in those days. Microsoft > doesn't even have a watchdog like the CRTC. > > "Resistance is futile. You will become one, with the Borg."
My philosophy is to "USE" MS much the same way, but with better imagination, that they've "USED" others. It's great that MS produced a program that dumps out a web calendar which looks good and has all of the achors/links in there. Unfortunately, like many MS offerings, they fall a little short on reliability and functionality. I already gave Rod a list of machines/browsers which it failed (crashed one!) or misbehaved on. Unless you have one of the unfortunate setups, this is really just a boring (though important!) webmaster issue. Functionally though, there are problems which will affect EVERYBODY's use of the calendar. Here's a big one (or is that 2?): 1. Click, click, click, and click (ugh... better navigational methods would be sensible and are easy to achieve!) your way to May and look for the WTT's in the calendar on the left. 2. SURPRISE (or not...) - They are NOT there!!! - MS could only fit Sir James' ride in the Tuesday slots. Likewise for other days with multiple entries - Just the earliest gets in the calendar view. The value of having a traditional calendar view taking up the majority of the page is kind of negated if the calendar only shows one entry per day and you have to click to another (small) frame to see the rest of the day's entries! DUMB, DUMB, DUMB, DUMB, DUMB! If this is really the best that we can get from MS, I'd say that MS is inadequate for our calendar. Yet, I'd not reject their work. They've done all of the dull "grunt work" in making the html anchors and links. They've also constructed a calendar view which is attractive. We can easily use this work to our advantage. We need only write a filter program to take the MS output and fix the inadequacies. This is a relatively trivial task for one with my skills and I made the offer, but so far it has been rejected. For the record, the offer is still there (I had already programmed a fix for most of the problems (a mere 1 hour's worth of my time) before "the Borg" said to forget it.) Life is too short to accept inefficient mediocrity - and some of us will never be assimilated. Thank Goodness! Celia ------ To unsubscribe, send a blank message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Club Office: [EMAIL PROTECTED], (613) 230-1064 Web/mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cyberus.ca/~obcweb Newsletter: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cyberus.ca/~obcweb/Newsletter ==^================================================================ This email was sent to: [email protected] EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?aVxiDo.a2i8p1 Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^================================================================
