Ed Mullen wrote:
Michael Gordon wrote:
I have finally upgraded from Mozilla 1.1.18 to SeaMonkey 2.0.1, and most
things went smoothly.
The one problem I have noticed is the missing "Form Fill" function.
Yeah, you and a lot of other people.
I'm still trying to figure out how this "advancement" is at all helpful.
It's like so many other apps (especially MS Office) where "enhancements"
of new versions spawn a host of "how do I make the new version work like
the old one?" conversations, work-arounds, add-ons etc.
Anytime a dev sees that happen they ought to take heed and realize that
their view of "better" doesn't jibe with their users' views. They
should realize that they just f***d up a perfectly good and desired
product feature.
It's kind of like taking sliced bread and saying: "Oh! Let's make our
new version of sliced bread stick together! The slices will stay
fresher longer!" Yeah, great. But now it's not sliced bread anymore,
ok? It's essentially "un-sliced" bread. Just because you /can/ do it
doesn't mean you /should/ do it.
Ask your audience/consumers/customers. If you "improve" the product
enough you just might "improve" your product right out of existence.
And I'm starting to get there with the whole Mozilla line.
I seem to recall a conversation here or another group where the creator
of the Forms module in SM1 is long gone and they don't have anyone with
enough smarts to figure out the code, so they just scrapped it thinking
no one used it. Since developers don't use the features they create.
--
Phillip M. Jones, C.E.T. "If it's Fixed, Don't Break it"
http://www.phillipmjones.net/ mailto:pjon...@kimbanet.com
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