April 11, 2000
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The fact that you're blaming this on Microsoft is sad.
posted by delfuego at 1:11 PM on April 11, 2000
In any case, while this particular example may not be attributable to micros~1, it's absolutely undeniably the case that Windows Explorer has the most unreliable progress bars I've ever seen. They report "15 seconds remaining" for minutes at a time, for instance ...
posted by dhartung at 1:25 PM on April 11, 2000
posted by plinth at 1:26 PM on April 11, 2000
Why don't you form a company to develop an OS.
Let's see how many mistakes *you* make.
Stop knocking...unless you can do better.
posted by tomcosgrave at 3:14 PM on April 11, 2000
You might consider that Plinth's programming background is such that he... can make some informed statements about this sort of thing... I've watched him in action, and given time, I'm pretty sure he could. Do better, that is.
posted by CrazyUncleJoe at 3:38 PM on April 11, 2000
posted by Awol at 4:11 PM on April 11, 2000
Where was I? So yes, it was Netscape's dialog, but Microsoft's common control which was not functioning properly (although there is about a 50-50 chance for whose side of the fence the problem is on), but at times like this I do get uppity about software quality or lack thereof because the nature of my skills usually put me in the position of working around someone else's poor design.
Usually I just shake my head before taking the screen shots.
posted by plinth at 4:39 PM on April 11, 2000
posted by greyscale at 7:25 PM on April 11, 2000
"If architects built buildings like programmers built software, the first woodpecker to come along would annihilate civilization." -- Nicholas Chase
posted by vitaminb at 7:26 PM on April 11, 2000
And yes, there is a common API for progress bars, plinth, but it's up to the programmer to update them correctly. Remember, the little numbers above the progress bar aren't linked to the progress bar unless there's code that does so explicitly -- you have to pass the max and current values into the API, and it will draw your bar for you. If Netscape isn't passing in the right max, then you'll get what you see -- it ain't Microsoft's fault. (Yep, I've made many many dialogs with that same API and control, and I've never seen an instance where it does the math wrong, unless I'm passing in an idiotic value. Programmer's error.
I reiterate -- I doubt seriously that Microsoft's control is responsible for that dialog box. (And, given the major other problems throughout Netscape's UI, I lean even more towards that being the problem.)
posted by delfuego at 7:35 PM on April 11, 2000
posted by Sapphireblue at 9:24 PM on April 11, 2000
posted by rafeco at 6:52 AM on April 12, 2000
And to make an analogy a little more on-topic: I couldn't write a web browser if my life depended on it but that's not stopped me for a second in bitching about how awful Netscape 4 is for the last... how long's it been out? Anyway.
posted by Sapphireblue at 12:20 PM on April 12, 2000
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