Subject RE: [IBDI] Attention Firebird Demo Site
Author Damian Dowling
At 11:27 30/04/2001 , you wrote:
>Wanting to do something different is the problem of so many programmers :-))
>Don't try to do something different for only this reason. If something is
>good as it is, don't change it.
>Many Programs have big problems because they don't work how the users expect
>they should work, and navigating on the left side is one of these things.
>e.G. despite of all disputes out there, there is one major reason, why I
>will never use Netscape as Browser. It won't jump back one page, if I hit
>the backspace button. Well, I have a logitech-mouse, so hitting the
>thumb-button does this as well, but without the backspace-button, i can't
>really use it as I like to use it. So, Netscape doesn't come into
>consideration at all. Well, it is also terribly slow, buggy and ugly, but
>the backspace button is my personal showstopper :-))
>And all this only, because I am so accustomed to hitting backspace in the
>explorer, the IE, and also all treeviews out there basing on the
>windows-tree-control...

I understand what you are getting at. I have successfully have the contents
on the right before - sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't, I had to
at least give everyone the option.


>The new layout suites me much better, and the navigation itself is done
>nicely. Only the colors are terrible....
>what about setting the blue to something really dark like clNavy, or even
>clHighlight in win2K, and the links to light grey or brighter orange....this
>should work pretty well....
>
>Nick Josipovic
>Corporate Market Intelligence
>
>Phone: ++49 6227 762945

I had just come to the same result. I should have the new one up in a while.



Damian Dowling
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Pallas Foods Ltd

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