From: Ann Barcomb
Date: 17:02 on 14 Aug 2003
Subject: I hate Lotus Notes too.
At work, I have to use Lotus Notes for some of my email.
If I'm sent an HTML mail (an evil all on its own), which contains
a link like this:
<a href="http://bar.com/english?session=JKH6*&wshf7">http://bar.com</a>;
it is displayed as if I wrote this:
<a href="http://bar.com">http://bar.com</a>;
Of course, its automatic URL detection knows better than I do what
the link should be. To get around it, you have to write the link
like this:
http://<a href="http://bar.com">bar.com</a>;
From: Garrett Rooney Date: 17:27 on 14 Aug 2003 Subject: Re: I hate Lotus Notes too. Ann Barcomb wrote: > At work, I have to use Lotus Notes for some of my email. > > If I'm sent an HTML mail (an evil all on its own), which contains > a link like this: > > <a href="http://bar.com/english?session=JKH6*&wshf7">http://bar.com</a>; > > it is displayed as if I wrote this: > > <a href="http://bar.com">http://bar.com</a>; > > Of course, its automatic URL detection knows better than I do what > the link should be. To get around it, you have to write the link > like this: > > http://<a href="http://bar.com">bar.com</a>; There are not nearly enough hours in the day for me to write all the things about lotus notes that I hate. It is the bane of my existence. There is a special place in hell for the people who designed it's interface. It's like they go out of their way to be inconsistent, both with standard Windows UI guidlines and amazingly enough even within their own application. I especially love what they've done with version 6, they just went and changed everything, so it's /sort of/ like a real windows app, but not quite, and yet is completely different from how things used to work in previous versions of notes, so all the little work arounds you built up to let you deal with it's lousy interface all need to be subtly tweaked in obscure and counterintuitive ways so that you can continue to function. -garrett
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