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Small and disturbing flashback... I worked at an organisation which implemented Lotus Notes across everything. All I remember is EXCRUCIATING PAIN and armies o
by bwarp 15y ago
Small and disturbing flashback...
I worked at an organisation which implemented Lotus Notes across everything. All I remember is EXCRUCIATING PAIN and armies of suited, gold decorated consultants who could barely get their own bodies into their expensive sports cars.
- arethuza 15y agoFor some reason I always used to find the login process to Notes really disturbing - the way you typed your password and for each key you pressed multiple hieroglyphics would appear. Of course, then there were all of the input controls - which seem to have been designed to behave like no other input controls before or since....
- slig 15y agoI wonder the type of super-manager that came up with that hieroglyphic idea. And the programmer that implemented it sighing.
- arethuza 15y agoNotes has an entire entry in the Interface Hall of Shame: http://homepage.mac.com/bradster/iarchitect/lotus.htm http://homepage.mac.com/bradster/iarchitect/lotus.htm They have an animation of how the login worked. It's even worse than I remembered!
- omh 15y agoThis feature is still present in the latest version. When I enter my password I get a window like the one here: http://depressedpress.com/2011/03/07/lotus-notes-tribunal-exhibit-001-b-login-screen-animation/ http://depressedpress.com/2011/03/07/lotus-notes-tribunal-ex... Really though, this is quite low down on any list of Notes UI issues. There's a whole can of worms there that's best left unopened.
- r00fus 15y agoIt's actually a pretty good implementation of preventing login dialog imposters. However, with the popularization of keyloggers (and signed binaries), that should have been sidelined as no longer needed. I'm guessing it was somehow related to some big business/government clients that require such a feature despite it's efficacy.
- bwarp 15y agoI'd actually completely forgotten about those hieroglyphic things! That and the three stars appearing when you hit a key. That was greeted with a massive WTF.