Re: info center search. III.

On Fri, 10 May 2002, Scott Klement wrote

> Web pages by nature are SUPPOSED to be platorm-neutral.   Yet,
when I told
> IBM about this problem, they told me to run Windows.

I was going to stay out of this whole thread, but this particular
posting is so precisely parallel to my own experience that I had
to say "Me too!"


> In fact, the ONLY browser thats worked consistently with all
features of
> the Info Center is Netscape 4.7x running under Windows.

Exactly my experience again.


> I don't mind the Info Center in general.  But the
Windows-specific stuff
> is a constant headache.   It should be EASY to make Java &
JavaScript so
> that they are platform-neutral.  Why hasn't IBM done this?

I asked about that a number of times. I have found it so
irritating to be forced into using Windows/IE -- by IBM even! If
I try shutting down enough of IE to make it secure on the
Internet, InfoCenter becomes unusable.

I personally like the information available in InfoCenter. What I
don't like comes down to (1) poor searches and (2) MS IE
practically required with unsecure settings (there should never
be a need for ActiveX at an IBM site for example.)

I can't believe any significant testing of InfoCenter has ever
been done with NS 6. (I use NS 6 on an IBM ThinkPad with W2K Pro
and the result is terrible.) Whether anyone on the list
personally likes MS IE or NS is mostly irrelevant. However,
InfoCenter apparently being written to favor either over the
other is inexcuseable for IBM. Uh, IMO, of course.

Tom Liotta

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