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Home -> Community -> Mailing Lists -> Oracle-L -> Re: MetaLink
You are right. I concur.
Seems someone in Oracle needs to learn web design, removing the quick search is bad and the performance is woeful, oh and the view saved searches button is in the wrong place it should be away from the submit button and should be somewhere on the left, but then again if the guys that built the site aren't from western countries then perhaps it all seems normal to them
Cheer
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ml-errors_at_fatcity.com wrote on 09/03/2004 12:04:25 AM:
> Okay, it finally loaded. To give Oracle the beneft of the doubt,
> I'm hoping performance is related to "opening day" traffic. The
> extra click for a search is counter-productive for me - I can't just
> click on a boomark, enter my userID/password and start my search
> anymore. Now I have to wait for the page to load, click the search
> button and then enter my search criteria.
>
> I will say that the advanced search features are *nice* to have, but
> I want the base search functionality to load fast and be the first
> thing I see. Advanced searches should be an option.
>
> I hope Oracle rethinks their approach.
>
> Matt
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ml-errors_at_fatcity.com [mailto:ml-errors_at_fatcity.com] On Behalf Of
> Oldham, Matthew
> Sent: Monday, March 08, 2004 9:49 AM
> To: Multiple recipients of list ODTUG-L
> Subject: RE: MetaLink
> I'd comment on the new version but I am still waiting on the page to load...
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ml-errors_at_fatcity.com [mailto:ml-errors_at_fatcity.com] On Behalf Of
> Dean Harris
> Sent: Monday, March 08, 2004 9:19 AM
> To: Multiple recipients of list ODTUG-L
> Subject: MetaLink
> Just curious. Anyone else dislike the changes to MetaLink made this
> weekend. Seems like a big step backwards at this point. Plus it's
> painfully slow right now. Where's my quick text field. Search
> results don't give any match percentages. Ugh!!!
>
> Felt good to let that out. :)
>
> - Dean Harris
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