@Cris: Blame the early Lotus Business Partners (including me) more than Lotus for the fact that you can't get to the Partner Forum with a browser. We played a big part in convincing Lotus _not_ to open up the forum to browser users back when Domino was just starting out on the web. On several occasions, IBM proposed opening it up, and we resisted -- strongly. However misguided, our reason was that we didn't want IBM partners with no serious committment to Notes and Domino to sit there lurking via browser and deriving value from all our contributions while not contributing. Bear in mind, this was in the late 90's, the integration of Lotus and IBM was far from complete, the integration of the Lotus partners with the larger IBM partner community was far from complete, and the capabilities of the Notes client as a collaboration client were still viewed as being way, way ahead of what you could do with a browser. Resistance by partners to opening up the Forum to browser users is probably all but gone now, but now I think it's a matter of resources to convert the design and webify all the capabilities we have built into the forum for the Notes client so as not to lose functionality, and to make all the content look good regardless of which client you want to work with.
@Cris: Blame the early Lotus Business Partners (including me) more than Lotus for the fact that you can't get to the Partner Forum with a browser. We played a big part in convincing Lotus _not_ to open up the forum to browser users back when Domino was just starting out on the web. On several occasions, IBM proposed opening it up, and we resisted -- strongly. However misguided, our reason was that we didn't want IBM partners with no serious committment to Notes and Domino to sit there lurking via browser and deriving value from all our contributions while not contributing. Bear in mind, this was in the late 90's, the integration of Lotus and IBM was far from complete, the integration of the Lotus partners with the larger IBM partner community was far from complete, and the capabilities of the Notes client as a collaboration client were still viewed as being way, way ahead of what you could do with a browser. Resistance by partners to opening up the Forum to browser users is probably all but gone now, but now I think it's a matter of resources to convert the design and webify all the capabilities we have built into the forum for the Notes client so as not to lose functionality, and to make all the content look good regardless of which client you want to work with.