[PCB_FORUM] Re: New www.cdnusers.org forum - suggestions (was -Re: Don't shut this blah blah
- From: "David Greig" <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <icu-pcb-forum@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2006 12:31:32 -0000
With so much change requested of Cadence to make it look/feel like a mailing
list that there seems little point in replacing a
well functioning mailing list. Bottom line is that any effort expended on
Cadence's part is funded by customers. I'd be happier
if maintain ace moneys were directed towards product development and issue
resolution.
Best Regards
David Greig
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Sent: 09 March 2006 10:11
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Subject: [PCB_FORUM] Re: New www.cdnusers.org forum - suggestions (was -Re:
Don't shut this blah blah
Hi David
I'm not sure if you're agreeing with me or not.
First, please read my posting about "resistance to change". I even made light
of the situation (refer "Hogshead"), so we don't
all get too hung up.
Second, I agree to the preference for the CDN Group to possibly alter the
operation (or even consider it) . That's the point of
my email, hence my suggestions.
Also prefering "s" over "z",
Richard
>>> david@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx 03/09/06 8:33 PM >>>
It's human nature to resist change, and invoking change always comes at a cost
before any benefit is realisable(sorry about the
's').From what I can gather from recent postings, it seems that there is a
preference for Cadence to alter the operation and
usability of cdnusers so that it attains most of the functionality and
usability of ones preferred email client software. I hate
to point out the obvious...
Best Regards
David Greig
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Sent: 08 March 2006 23:46
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Subject: [PCB_FORUM] New www.cdnusers.org forum - suggestions (was -Re: Don't
shut this list down !)
Hi
Although I'm not 100% convinced, let's try and be constructive here. As
promised, I said I would try make a few suggestions.
I'm posting this here as most people are still on this list.
Suggestions for www.cdnusers.org's 'Forums' pages.
(I appreciate a lot of this is a tall order, but other people may be thinking
the same.)
1 - a help menu, to help with navigation. eg, tell people that text sizes can
indeed be resized through the browser
2 - "Work in progress", eg. to let users know that 'the email issue' is a
concern and they are being worked on. Not all WIP
would necessarily be in the "suggestions" folder that's there.
3 - It looks like it's been optimized for a 800 pixel screen. I haven't used
one of these for centuries. A little bit of
javascript will widen the page size to what a screen will handle.
4 - Failing point 3, have the main page resizable anyway.
5 - The HTML editor is too small. Other HTML editors exist that are more
flexible, including being able to embed an image.
6 - Have the forums page set to a link that is stable, if
"http://www.cdnusers.org/Forums/tabid/52/Default.aspx"; isn't already. That
way, people can bookmark the page if they wish to.
7 - It's been written with asp.net. Is there a compression method available
similar to mod_gzip? The javascript, html and css
files can then be compressed.
8 - It would be possible to add a search to the first forum (
//www.freelists.org/archives/icu-pcb-forum/ ) to look
through older archives. It does not necessarily need to have the results in
the new format - a new window would be fine.
9 - I'm not sure if spell checking is possible. OK, it's technically possible,
and has been done before elsewhere, but may be
quite tricky here. Ditto for saving work half way through. Although, if we
can reply from an email will not make this so
important. These would not, unfortunately, be available for new postings.
People like me may hav to lern to typ bettr.
10 - a 'printer friendly' option
Well, seems I've the "magic 10". Let's see what happens. Meanwhile, I've got
a bit of a backlog of work to clear!
11 - oops - one more. A small point, but not all the world follows the US date
format. Well, actually, I don't know of anyone
else that does. This should be able to be tied to the 'My Profile'.
Cheers,
Richard
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