8.02.2006

A little speed added among other things

I've received quite a few suggestions to speed up the application because people like to work "fast". They liked the overall setup but didn't like having to wait a few seconds to wait for the drop down to enter or edit a task. Being a "fast" worker myself, I completely understand the need to want to work as fast as possible, especially once you are familiar with software. Nothing sucks more than having to wait for something to load/process.

Within the next year, I hope to make the application 100% AJAX (i.e. no page loads at all), but for the meantime I sped up the drop downs considerably. I also added toggle functionality to any buttons that cause a drop down (one of my best friends had been in my ear about this). I think a lot of first time users just assume that buttons like the "edit" button toggle - it just seems intuitive that they would - so now they do.

I also completed a few other minor upgrades like cleaning up some little differences between browsers (it's amazing, 60% of our users use Firefox) and also improved a few security things on the back end to make sure your data is as safe as possible. Oh, and the homepage now loads with the cursor in the "email" field so you don't need to click there.

That's all for now.

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