Re: I hate Lotus Notes too.

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From: Garrett Rooney
Subject: Re: I hate Lotus Notes too.
Date: 17:27 on 14 Aug 2003
Ann Barcomb wrote:

> At work, I have to use Lotus Notes for some of my email.
> 
> If I'm sent an HTML mail (an evil all on its own), which contains
> a link like this:
> 
>     <a href="http://bar.com/english?session=JKH6*&wshf7">http://bar.com</a>;
> 
> it is displayed as if I wrote this:
> 
>     <a href="http://bar.com">http://bar.com</a>;
> 
> Of course, its automatic URL detection knows better than I do what
> the link should be.  To get around it, you have to write the link
> like this:
> 
>     http://<a href="http://bar.com">bar.com</a>;

There are not nearly enough hours in the day for me to write all the 
things about lotus notes that I hate.

It is the bane of my existence.

There is a special place in hell for the people who designed it's interface.

It's like they go out of their way to be inconsistent, both with 
standard Windows UI guidlines and amazingly enough even within their own 
application.

I especially love what they've done with version 6, they just went and 
changed everything, so it's /sort of/ like a real windows app, but not 
quite, and yet is completely different from how things used to work in 
previous versions of notes, so all the little work arounds you built up 
to let you deal with it's lousy interface all need to be subtly tweaked 
in obscure and counterintuitive ways so that you can continue to function.

-garrett

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