Bookmanager Read TSO is still my favorite , quirks and all. No waiting. No fishing around for what website might have some doc.
I am on TSO and my problem is on the mainframe so I look up what I need in seconds...one copy for everyone! On Wednesday, March 11, 2015, Paul Gilmartin < [email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, 10 Mar 2015 19:09:09 -0500, Shane Ginnane wrote: > > >Reading Kolosu's latest admonishment to gil, I trundled through the links > for completeness. > >The first (knowledgecentre) took minutes to load - yes *minutes*. The > others just "popped up". > > > >Another great technological leap backwards. > > > Indeed. Recently it took me 20 minutes merely to copy-and-paste a line > each from two different manuals into an RCF concerning a third manual; > not what I'd want to download two manuals for. But in retrospect it > would have been faster. > > KC is javascripted to the gills. It snatches keystrokes, even shortcuts > and takes unexpected actions, vectoring to a different page or a different > position on the current page. > > The lines I wanted to copy contained anchors. Usually I can just copy > the embedding paragraph and edit in the target window. KC wouldn't > let me. > > I tried to use Firefox "Find-in-page" for which FF supplies a text entry > box > at the lower left of the window, but KC pops up a nav bar at bottom of > the screen, obscuring the text entry box. Similarly, I can't get to the > horizontal scroll bar at the bottom. > > And I'm using an outdated OS X which provides a window resize handle > only in the lower right corner. Same nav bar problem. I switched to a > different tab; resized; switched back to KC. > > When I follow a link then go back to the parent page, most sites return > to that page scrolled as I left it; KC always places me at the top of that > parent, particularly irritating when that parent is a ToC. I'm learing to > open any link in a new tab so I can return to the undisturbed parent page > > Sheesh! What about ADA? How does all this play with an audio or Braille > reader? (But it's monochrome, which is accesibility-compliant.) > > A challenge to IBM: Provide a script-free, frames-free, popup-free > ("Classic"?) option for KC. > > "Anyone who slaps a 'this page is best viewed with Browser X' label on > a Web page appears to be yearning for the bad old days, before the Web, > when you had very little chance of reading a document written on > another > computer, another word processor, or another network." > -- Tim Berners-Lee in Technology Review, July 1996 > http://www.anybrowser.org/campaign/ > > (Not quite apropos -- I suspect that no browser can deal comfortably with > KC.) > > -- gil > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] <javascript:;> with the message: > INFO IBM-MAIN > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
