Just to add to this - the javascript event used to capture leaving the open page seems to be: window.onbeforeunload - it would be great if Chrome was able to disable that function entirely, but it doesn't seems possible.
This seems like a great feature, and sadly missing from Chrome.
I have thought of two types of insidious activities on sites today, the onclick popup and the confirm on close.
The onclick popup can be managed (to a small extent) in Chrome by holding the CTRL key and clicking when you have a sense a popup is coming. It doesn't cover all of them, but if you're familiar with a site's actions, you might catch 70% or more of them.
I'm not sure what creates the confirm on close, but I see it on sites that auto play video advertisements (among others). Once you try and close the window/tab - Chrome displays a prompt - requiring you to close the prompt, and then close the tab. Annoying.
I thought of one simple idea in Chrome - have a key combination (perhaps CTRL+SHIFT) that we can hold down while clicking on a link or possible popup, that will (a) open the link in a new tab and (b) NOT load the page or any elements. It simply presents an empty page with the url that we could copy or a tab we can close.
This would add a measure of control and hopefully doesn't break anything.
Interesting idea. I think many will want to use this in an RSS reader. Because of that, I would suggest you place a link to your feed (http://poststat.us/feed/) somewhere on the page so others can find it easily.
You're very welcome. I'm reading what I've written and it seems overly critical of your work. I don't want you to feel that's the case; it does look like a wonderful tool and, in the case of a developer or a web freelancer, may be very useful indeed.
I look forward to seeing how this project unfolds and I appreciate you taking the time to read my suggestions.
I find this a very interesting product category - and I'm part of a very (I feel) undeserved category of consultant/freelancers. The essence of what you seem to be doing "uber simple" (the the home page states), is what had me interested.
But, after seeing your video, and the number of times a user has to click on different elements - it's clear this is not a simple logging tool. I also think the video could be (a) called out above the fold and (b) include some sort of voice over.
I feel there is a market ready and waiting for those that work on more abstract sorts of things. Situations where work might form more organically from a blog post on http://blogging.cwl.cc (it's happened) or a small idea (more frequent), and eventually turns into billing or a larger scale project. With tools like these that are project-based - It feels like logging friction is much to high.
The problem is not being solved (in my opinion) because generally no one wants to log what they do, but for those that have decided to do so, there should be little to no clicking and a process to capture everything written in very low overhead manner (mobile support is essential).
So far, no tool seems to be as good as a simple OTA sync'ed calendar. So far.
So, I tested this on Windows XP and you'll likely have to do a check for .NET 3.5 and have it installed before the application gets copied. As per Devexpress:
"This may happen if you try to launch an XAF Windows Forms application at the workstation with Windows XP or an older Windows version installed. These systems do not have Microsoft .NET Framework installed by default. Download and install the .NET framework of the appropriate version from the Microsoft website (version 3.5 for Windows XP or version 2.0 for earlier Windows versions) or upgrade to Windows Vista or Windows 7."
These things are brutal. You'll loose a possible customer the second he/she sees a non-descript error like this.
I think anecdotal evidence is good to a point.. we can only know so much before starting to make larger generalizations.
In all this, there is some sense that we (as Canadians) are fundamentally different than our American friends. I do agree (it's just a feeling) that these perceived differences are holding us back in many ways.
Could this be culture? Could this be our more left-leaning ideologies? Could there be some small thinking involved?
As a Canadian who was invited to partake in the American workforce more than once but decided on staying here - I believe Canada has more to offer than America.
Here's the interesting thing I find about all this (and one that seems not to have been mentioned):
In Canada, we are more similar to America than anyone else (for the most part). Now, before you fellow hosers scream "Sacrilege", hear me out.
Beyond all of the licensing issues and stupid protectionism rules and laws we have here in Canada, services wishing to be in this country are doing so in probably the most similar country to the US than anywhere in the world. The dollar is almost at par, our language is the same (for most of us), culturally we're incredibly similar, we like the same kinds of entertainment and laugh at most of the same kinds of jokes. We share the worlds longest unprotected border, with billions and billions of goods travelling across in an entirely over-tariffed manner. We have very few barriers to entry into each other's country, causing a hell of a lot of cross-border whatever-you-wanted-to-do. Heck, we even have border cities named the same (Niagara Falls anyone?).
If fact, as a Canadian, if I were to simply just land in any US city and tell everyone I'm a US citizen they'd probably have no reason to disagree with me (at least until I ended a sentence in "Eh" or talked goofy).
In Canada, we're called a branch-plant economy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Branch_plant_economy) and I'd hazard to say that many American operating companies could simply provide service with very little technical barriers.
I'm just amazed at how we're so accessible to each other in many ways and yet so many services are off limits and stuff like iPads are released here a month later. Perhaps it keeps us from being flooded by Americanism, who knows.
http://imgur.com/LpwJ3Nn
Running Chrome 36.0.1985.143 on OS X