14 Jun
2004
14 Jun
'04
7:45 p.m.
At Mon, 14 Jun 2004 18:58:10 +0200,
Frank Barknecht wrote:
Though I'm not conviced at all ;) Editing textarea-fields simply
sucks. And I'm also saying this as a web developer. Generally
useability of web forums is really bad, that's my main gripe against
them. Also I like having the mailing list archives (and my own sent
mail) on my own hard disk instead of someone else's. grepmail is a
cool tool and much quicker than most web searches. Also searching
stuff and participating on lists won't be slowed down when I
bitttorrent the newest Dynebolic or do similar things.
I think we have a case here where two valid, but different,
definitions of user-friendly are at odds. All of the benefits you
list are things I never have and never will take advantage of.
However, I represent a screaming minority (possibly of one) within the
*nix world, so I just bend over and take it.
-Pete