»Q« wrote:
In <news:[email protected]>,
Phillip Jones <[email protected]> wrote:
»Q« wrote:
In<news:[email protected]>,
Phillip Jones<[email protected]> wrote:
»Q« wrote:
In<news:[email protected]>,
Bill Davidsen<[email protected]> wrote:
Well this is the very first and only person I have every met who
actually /likes/ the new crippled forms manager.
People who don't like it don't come to a support forum about it;
they're just happily using their browsers. I find the current
behavior *much* preferable to the old.
Not I.
Case in point. People who do like it don't come to the support
group to say so, whereas there are a few posters in the support
group who've said they don't like it several dozen times each. And
they continue to say it every time someone so much as mentions the
feature.
Shouldn't that tell you something,
Yes, it tells me they think that repeating the same thing over and over
might make it seem more important than if they just said it once or
even a few times.
as said previously very few people even know these groups exist.
Sure, and a few of the people who do know the groups exist really miss
the old form manager.
I have mixed feelings about that statement, because it's true, but there's more
than that. Because if the new forms manager would solve the problem of filling
in forms, people would have grumbled but would not have been so intense. Yes, my
opinion, I don't claim any divine origin for it. ;-)
But the new "form manager" is more of a "form fields" manager, in that it not
only lets you make choices on every field, but it forces you to do so. At least
in my attempts it didn't treat a form as a set of values, but a group of sets of
field values. So it didn't really save much time, because all of the fields with
multiple possible values needed to be visited.
Now we have an extension, it works, I think I have found a technique to use is
much better, and when I am sure I'm doing an intended use and pass it to Phil to
make sure he agrees, then I'll write it up and pass it on. Until then I won't
lead anyone into something which may fail in a corner case.
And one or two of those are not satisfied with the extensions(s) they
can use with SM 2 for it.
You will never satisfy everyone, and I hope no developer gets depressed by that,
or expects happy users to be vocal users. As someone told me a decade ago, "bug
tracking systems don't include a category for praise."
--
Bill Davidsen <[email protected]>
"We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from
the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot
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