First thoughts on the 8.5 discussion template
Sean Cull 6 January 2009 11:35:10
I deployed an 8.5 gold discussion template to the server. The new template is a big improvement but I did find some weird stuff !
The Holy Grail for me is "out of the box" rich text compatibility between browser and client. It was very refreshing to see this
Then I though "how did that image get there ?" Well after trying a few things I found that if you dragged and dropped a jpg onto the web form it displayed as an image in Notes BUT has not visible on the web form !
I wonder is this functionality that is in development ? It would be fantastic if images could be dragged and dropped such that they were visible on the web forms !
The other ( welcome ) surprise was this dialogue as I signed in - not so sure about the html tag showing through.
I have left the discussion database open for now at http://seancull.co.uk/public/discussion.nsf please do not abuse it.
The other thing that I found, and which surprised me, was that using an 8.02 client to create a new replica of the database in a new location on the 85 server did not work. I know some people will think that I am asking a lot to use a lower client to do this but this type of thing has usually worked in the past. I tried it a few times with no success, the only way to deploy the database was to create a new one using the 85 server as the template host - I wonder is this a constraint or am I doing something else wrong ?
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2vlad 06.01.2009 17:15:19 creating a link, opening an attachement It is not possible to create an url link. Also if you try to open an attachement, it is opend in the same window and if you use the browser's back button you will get an error (page expired) vlad
3Eric L 07.01.2009 5:53:27 Blog Template Are there any improvements to the IBM Blog Template? (Compared to v8) Just curious if they changed it or improved it at all. Also, the discussion site was slow to load - much slower than your Blog. I am in the US, so latency is a factor.
4Sean Cull 07.01.2009 10:04:23 @3 - 225 kb to load the first page Hi Eric @3 The first page appears to be a 223kb load so I am surprised it is slow. I would be interested in your views trying again, perhaps the application was being compacted at the time although I would imagine this was unlikely Sean Hi Paul @1 I have fixed your URL Agree that the widespread use of this template makes it a shame that more effort was not put into accessibility.
5Patrick Picard 20.08.2009 1:22:35 Discussion template See { Link } Pretty sad i can repeatedly crash my server on a discussion template!
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1Paul Hudson 06.01.2009 13:09:30 There’s been no effort to make these accessible
Thanks for making the template available. My first impressions aren't good ({ Link } I'm concerned that no effort has been made to ensure a core template meets accessiblity guidelines.