- From: Jeff Hill <johill@lanl.gov>
- Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 22:16:21 +0000
- To: <www-amaya@w3.org>
Dear all, Thanks for Amaya. In many ways, it's a fine product. However, for what it's worth, from my perspective Amaya is let down by those vexing delays when one types characters or uses the backspace keys. I am always erasing characters that I don't intend to erase. Worse yet, there appears to be some kind of race condition manifested by several words just disappearing from the document - being overwritten by something that I am typing. Furthermore, the scrolling in Amaya is so jerky that I often have to try several times before I can get the browser to window the portion of the document that I need to work on. Unfortunately, simple things like keyboard response are often more important than an extensive feature set if one has to use the tool to produce product. Many things about Amaya appear to be really well thought out so I am surprised that it doesn't get the fundamental editor stuff right. PS: I am working on an SMP machine. I don't know if that might matters. PPS: I have managed to put Amaya to useful work. See http://www.aps.anl.gov/epics/base/R3-14/7-docs/CAref.html PPPS: I recently upgraded to Amaya 9.2.2 and I can say that the jerkky response is as bad as ever in that version although I'm not certain that the worse problem where several words get obkliterated is still present. Jeff
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