Over the past few months for one reason or another, I have been accessing our email more and more using the iNotes 8.51 client instead of the regular Lotus Notes client. From my experience, I must said that I am very impressed with the performance and functionality of the iNotes 8.51 client. The iNotes team has done an impressive job in making the experience is some ways even better than the Lotus Notes 8.51 client. For one thing it sure comes up much faster.
After my last post in this series -- way back in September 2022, several things happened that prevented any further installments. First came CollabSphere 2022 and then CollabSphere 2023, and organizing international conferences can easily consume all of one's spare time. Throughout this same time period, our product development efforts continued at full speed and are just now coming to fruition, which means it is finally time to continue our blog series. So let's get started... As developers, most of us create applications through the conscious act of programming, either procedural, as many of us old-timers grew up with, or object-oriented, which we grudgingly had to admit was better. This is true whether we are using Java, LotusScript, C++ or Rust on Domino. (By the way, does anyone remember Pascal? When I was in school, I remember being told it was the language of the future, but for some reason it didn't seem to survive past the MTV era). But in the last decade, there a...
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Sidebar apps in iNotes, not quite same process, if at all, possible to install.
Browser issues usually from Firefox but not IE7. Not many but recent FF crashes make me wonder if another FF updaste is imminent.
ACL issues still are a problem, need some way to resolve from the web side, especially for apps.
Mail Rules work but more flexibility in client.
But these are nitpicks on what is generally still a far superior experience over OWA and Outlook and immensely over Exchange.
I have not used the iNotes sidebar. I don't use it much with the Notes client but I would be nice for having the Web apps accessible on the sidebar.