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Re: Itty-bitty LEGO set looker-upper
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lugnet.admin.database
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Wed, 16 Feb 2000 22:06:34 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.database, Todd Lehman wrote:
> In lugnet.admin.database, Steve Bliss writes:
> > QuickSet seems like a nifty thing. I have one big problem with it,
> > unfortunately. This is with IE5. Once launched, the QuickSet window becomes
> > the target window for any URL that gets launched from a non-browser
> > application. [...]
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> Wow, that's a very strange browser bug. (How did you launch it, BTW? With
> one of the 4 main launchers, or one of the 4 alternative links for non-
> JavaScript browsers?)
I've done both, but I can't say I've rigorously checked for this annoyance in
all cases.
> > One smaller navigation thing, having to do with looking up a range of sets.
> > I enter my query in the QuickSet window. A new window is displayed, with
> > thumbnails of all the matching sets. If I click one of the thumbnails, an
> > enlarged version of that thumbnail is displayed in the same window,
> > replacing the list of sets. I can't get back to the list, because I don't
> > have any navigation aids. So if I want to examine another match, I have to
> > requery. [...]
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> Hmm, MSIE5 doesn't have the right-click "Back" option? (I always thought it
> did.) If that doesn't work, and you actually are able to launch it in MSIE
> with one of the 4 main JS launchers, what happens when you click the check-
> boxes before launching it? (In particular, the Navigation checkbox.)
I'm sure it does. I just never use that function from the context menu, so I
didn't think of it. So this situation is downgraded from an annoyance to an
interface quirk.
Steve
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| (...) Ok, well, the best thing I can recommend then in that case is checking the "Navigation" checkbox before launching the utility. That way, you'll get a "Back" button for that window. (Unfortunately, I don't have MSIE5 to test this out and (...) (25 years ago, 16-Feb-00, to lugnet.admin.database)
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| | Re: Itty-bitty LEGO set looker-upper
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| (...) Wow, that's a very strange browser bug. (How did you launch it, BTW? With one of the 4 main launchers, or one of the 4 alternative links for non- JavaScript browsers?) (...) Hmm, MSIE5 doesn't have the right-click "Back" option? (I always (...) (25 years ago, 15-Feb-00, to lugnet.admin.database)
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