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Originally posted by nx01rules
Currently I am in the process of programming a new Window Open/Closed Notifier for Windows Messenger Live - so far everything is going really well, and it even works!
It will NOT work!!!!!!
You said you read all there is about this subject. I suggest to read all that again...
Such stuff you are creating will NOT work. This is because you have NO way in knowing for sure if the notification of the opened/closed window is actually for an opened or closed window. There are many other events which can trigger these notifications.
But all this you already know apparently. Therefor it strikes me that you (and others) still persist in calling this a window open/close notifier while it is not as explained time and again.
This all shows that you (plural) still don't grasp exactly why people like me are against this. The reason is very simple and I will repeat it again for the gazillionth time: People who do not know how such stuff works (and those are the ones which will use such tools the most!!) will actually rely on this and misinterpret such tools. If you said you read and understood everything in that long thread then you also understand that calling this an "open/closed window notifier" is the worsed you can do.
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Call it with its proper name: "open/closed session notifier"
2) Add a big red flashing popup (so to speak) to inform the user that such tools are NOT accurate especially if used as a open/closed window notifier <= and that is not an opinion as many will try to shut me up with! That is a fact. What you call reliable and 14/15 accurate is extremely highly biased and such figures are only true for specific cases. If you take all the possible scenario's in account you'll see that an "open/closed window notifier" will not have such a good ratio at all.
PS: and the excuse of "if they want it, let them have it" is pure BS, as it is forums like these where those people come to when they have problems with such stuff because they don't understand the background of it. And then we are having to explain it again and again how it actually works (or not works). Again, this is not an opinion but a fact and said out of years experience with this stuff.
PS2: also before replying, realize that I (and other people which you call anti-open window notifer people) are NOT AGAINST such tools, but we are AGAINST the wide spreading of misinformation and misconceptions which this could cause. Hence why it is, for starters, important that you A) call such stuff by its proper name, B) inform people how to use it, benefits, disadvantages, etc.
Currently you are doing nothing more than helping to spread more misconceptions and misinformation with it, and THAT is what we reply so heavly on.
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