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Re: IBM Navigator for i: Disabling dashboard

Plugs to a web browser? Is that a thing? I've heard of plug in's to fat
clients like Eclipse.
I guess this would be like adding portal apps. The problem I see with
most of those is two fold. One, everybody wants you to use their portal
and add your apps to their portal. Not like 'this app is generic for
several portals'. Two, you get so darned much stuff in a one screen you'd
feel better off with just opening a different browser session so you can
move it to a different display, alt-tab to it, etc.

Then there's keeping up with browsers and changing expectations of the
browser experience.
Many people in our industry go into two camps.
- Don't add any new feature which won't work on IE 3.0, and can I still
use it from my Commodore 64?
- IE is dead so use the latest version of the replacement (I can't even
tell you the name) or the latest from ...




Rob Berendt

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