OLC?

Ray Lovinggood wrote:
Why do we complain about something that is free?

Heh. Is this your first visit to the internets?

At 23:18 25 October 2006, Jack wrote:
Ray Lovinggood wrote:
Why do we complain about something that is free?

The response below in true glider-pilot logic...

It's not free. It's just that the contestants don't
pay.


Hmm, have to think about that one.

The old version was functional with minor inconveniences.
Eventually I have no doubt that the new version will
also be fully functional. But could we not have retained
the old version for another year until the new version
was really ready for general use ? New technology
is nice [until it in turn becomes old technology] but
functionality is really what it's all about.

And thankyou to all the volunteers without whom we
would have neither any technology nor functionality.

Ian

You would think by now we would see some improvements...
Still default to tomorrow and the calendar doesn't work...

Ramy

Ian Cant wrote:
The old version was functional with minor inconveniences.
Eventually I have no doubt that the new version will
also be fully functional. But could we not have retained
the old version for another year until the new version
was really ready for general use ? New technology
is nice [until it in turn becomes old technology] but
functionality is really what it's all about.

And thankyou to all the volunteers without whom we
would have neither any technology nor functionality.

Ian

In order to make the calendar work I have to use the two double arrow
icons at the upper right and left edges of the calendar. First use the
upper double left arrow to move back 1 year, then use the upper right
double arrow to move forward 1 year. The date buttons then appear to
work.

As I have opinioned before, it's a shame these sorts of bugs were not
worked out in a beta test phase.

Bob

On 2 Nov 2006 20:10:28 -0800, "Ramy" wrote:

You would think by now we would see some improvements...
Still default to tomorrow and the calendar doesn't work...

Ramy

Ian Cant wrote:
The old version was functional with minor inconveniences.
Eventually I have no doubt that the new version will
also be fully functional. But could we not have retained
the old version for another year until the new version
was really ready for general use ? New technology
is nice [until it in turn becomes old technology] but
functionality is really what it's all about.

And thankyou to all the volunteers without whom we
would have neither any technology nor functionality.

Ian

At least here in good old Europe the calender works.

Could it be that the problem arises from the fact that the calender
always assumes that you are in Europe, while you are 9 hours behind.
Is the date correct when you check in the morning and not in the evening?

Some of the problems will not be visible to a user or tester in Europe.






Bob Gibbons schrieb:
In order to make the calendar work I have to use the two double arrow
icons at the upper right and left edges of the calendar. First use the
upper double left arrow to move back 1 year, then use the upper right
double arrow to move forward 1 year. The date buttons then appear to
work.

As I have opinioned before, it's a shame these sorts of bugs were not
worked out in a beta test phase.

Bob

On 2 Nov 2006 20:10:28 -0800, "Ramy" wrote:

You would think by now we would see some improvements...
Still default to tomorrow and the calendar doesn't work...

On Nov 4, 2:51 pm, hans wrote:
At least here in good old Europe the calender works.

Could it be that the problem arises from the fact that the calender
always assumes that you are in Europe, while you are 9 hours behind.
Is the date correct when you check in the morning and not in the evening?

Some of the problems will not be visible to a user or tester in Europe.

Yes, I'm sure that may be part of it. Perhaps a user profile set with
cookies and coupled to the login could address some of these issues?
Or some command line variables to help customize the view?

The OLC link in the USA, for example goes through the SSA website. If
they could add some options there so that a click on "scoring" would
automatically select United States, and a generic timezone for the US,
that may help.

One feature I find missing is the aboulity to display the one month
list of flights - especially nice if there a not yet many flights for
"today". Actually, an option to display the last week's worth of
flights would be very nice, as that would provide a reasonable snapshot
of recent activity.

-Tom