Yep. It's the UI. When I say UI I mean the way a User Interfaces with the application rather than merely what it looks like.
Chris has done a good job of making it look half decent but having downloaded the demo {Link} I can't pretend to be over-awed by it. It's still suffers the Notes oddities.
Open the database and you see a Book Catalog with two books. There are actually four there but you wouldn't know unless you noticed the fairly inconspicuous Scroll Up/Down buttons. What, no scrollbar?
So, you drag a book to the shopping cart to add it? On my local copy this doesn't work and probably wouldn't make any sense to a user anyhow. Not half as much as a button next to book that said "Buy this".
There's a link under my perma-empty shopping cart that says "View Entire Cart" but it doesn't do anything.
If I drag a book to the "remove from cart" area I get an error saying bookmark can't be found and asking if I want to remove it. Saying yes deletes this part of the page and re-opening the db shows an empty page - no books at all. Click the "Return booK" button now and you get an error prompt saying "Invalid note id".
All in all it's not what you'd expect a user to have to interface with. That's Notes for you.
If Chris ever reads this I hope he doesn't take offence. I didn't want to attack what he's done or for it to be personal. He used some good ideas to try and mimic web-style interfaces in Notes, but the fact it's Notes means he really shouldn't have even tried to.
Yep. It's the UI. When I say UI I mean the way a User Interfaces with the application rather than merely what it looks like.
Chris has done a good job of making it look half decent but having downloaded the demo {Link} I can't pretend to be over-awed by it. It's still suffers the Notes oddities.
Open the database and you see a Book Catalog with two books. There are actually four there but you wouldn't know unless you noticed the fairly inconspicuous Scroll Up/Down buttons. What, no scrollbar?
So, you drag a book to the shopping cart to add it? On my local copy this doesn't work and probably wouldn't make any sense to a user anyhow. Not half as much as a button next to book that said "Buy this".
There's a link under my perma-empty shopping cart that says "View Entire Cart" but it doesn't do anything.
If I drag a book to the "remove from cart" area I get an error saying bookmark can't be found and asking if I want to remove it. Saying yes deletes this part of the page and re-opening the db shows an empty page - no books at all. Click the "Return booK" button now and you get an error prompt saying "Invalid note id".
All in all it's not what you'd expect a user to have to interface with. That's Notes for you.
If Chris ever reads this I hope he doesn't take offence. I didn't want to attack what he's done or for it to be personal. He used some good ideas to try and mimic web-style interfaces in Notes, but the fact it's Notes means he really shouldn't have even tried to.