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Comment: Re:Do something local (Score 2) 332

by Z34107 (#38851647) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Money-Making Home-Based Tech Skills?

A rather large hospital out west implemented an entire EMR in FileMaker Pro. It wasn't anything to look at, was somewhat feature bereft, etc., but it supported the workflows they needed it to, exactly how they wanted it to.

Reporting can be done by an utter novice, since you can do a full-text search on every field in FileMaker Pro. No SQL - just keep clicking find, and you have your ad-hoc report. I guess you can say it's "accessible."

So, no, it's definitely not a "professional" solution, and I wouldn't want to touch it with a ten foot pole. But, they wrote an Electronic Medical Record in it, with no technical knowledge whatsover.

Comment: Re:I just want a sensible UI (Score 1) 185

by Z34107 (#38826567) Attached to: Chromium-Based Spinoffs Worth Trying

Why should you scroll, when the always-on status bar is already included when calculating window height?

Because you want to read what's behind the status bar? The post I replied to complained Chrome's (lack of) status bar might cover the text he was reading. My response was that an always-on status bar would always cover that text.

I'll leave why that would cause scrolling as an exercise to the reader.

Comment: Re:I just want a sensible UI (Score 1) 185

by Z34107 (#38826517) Attached to: Chromium-Based Spinoffs Worth Trying

Let's go back to my original reply, which is why Chrome doesn't have a status bar. With various evidence, I posited that:

  • It would clutter a purposefully minimalist UI
  • Nobody wants it

You argue that Firefox is "spitting" on its users by changing the status bar. Why would Chrome changing its status bar be any different?

Comment: Re:I just want a sensible UI (Score 1) 185

by Z34107 (#38826319) Attached to: Chromium-Based Spinoffs Worth Trying

All we can observe is this pretty correlation between introduction of FF4 with radically changed UI and acceleration of FF's user share decline

Yes. The status bar is the only reason people are leaving Firefox or using 3.6. This is clearly a more reasonable figure than "number of people who actually turned the status bar back on."

both for you and many UX designers *snip*

I'm not a UX designer. I don't care what you think about them, and I don't care to defend the profession.

P.S.: And again you refer to "exceptionally small number of toxic users". You must be a real hit at parties.

This is a nerd message board, not a party. I don't drink with people that confuse the two.

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