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<blockquote data-quote="Fast Learner" data-source="post: 457393" data-attributes="member: 649">I'll politely disagree with your thoughts on Access, vpenman. Using Access is far better than a custom database. Where eTools fell down is in providing easy tools to manipulate that Access database. If you have two tools, one that uses Access and one that uses a proprietary database, and neither tool has an interface for modifying the database, I'd much, much rather have the Access one so that at least someone outside of the original development team and some hardcore hackers can modify it. Because Fluid uses Access, the day eTools was released we had a publically-available tool for modifying the database, a very simple utility for doing so was released within another day or so, and within a week an uneducated (no knowledge of Access) user could add splatbook material to eTools.Certainly eTools should have been designed to allow easy modifcation by users, but lacking that, Access is much better than nothing.On the subject of making users download browser upgrades: amen, that was a terrible, inexcusable QA mistake.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Fast Learner, post: 457393, member: 649"] I'll politely disagree with your thoughts on Access, vpenman. Using Access is far better than a custom database. Where eTools fell down is in providing easy tools to manipulate that Access database. If you have two tools, one that uses Access and one that uses a proprietary database, and neither tool has an interface for modifying the database, I'd much, [i]much[/i] rather have the Access one so that at least [i]someone[/i] outside of the original development team and some hardcore hackers can modify it. Because Fluid uses Access, the day eTools was released we had a publically-available tool for modifying the database, a very simple utility for doing so was released within another day or so, and within a week an uneducated (no knowledge of Access) user could add splatbook material to eTools. Certainly eTools should have been [i]designed[/i] to allow easy modifcation by users, but lacking that, Access is much better than nothing. On the subject of making users download browser upgrades: amen, that was a terrible, inexcusable QA mistake. [/QUOTE]

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