[Patentcenter] More bugs in Patent Center (from an involuntary Alpha Tester)

[Carl Oppedahl]

On 11/16/2023 11:50 AM, Alan Taboada via Patentcenter wrote:
>
> Which brings me to another annoyance of PC and a feature request 
> (being nice to not call it a bug). In EFS-Web, one could right click 
> an efiling acknowledgement link and select "save link as" to choose a 
> location and filename for the receipt.  Or one could right click on a 
> link to open it in a new tab.
>
> However, now, in PC right-clicking on many items of interest that you 
> might want to save or open in a new tab merely brings up a useless 
> contextual menu that does not include the option to save the file as 
> something or to open the link in a new tab.
>
One way to model this is as a RESTfulness fail.

See discussion at https://blog.oppedahl.com/oppedahl/ where I write

    During the very first apha-tester meeting with the USPTO developers
    in 2018, the USPTO developers promised that Patent Center would be
    RESTful (Wikipedia article <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/REST>). 
    RESTfulness is the result of following best practices in web
    interface design.  Among other things, if the designer follows best
    practices, the user can right-click on any link and can open it in a
    new window.  But guess what, and I know this will astonish you, it
    turns out that the USPTO developers have spent the past five years
    failing to follow best practices for web interface design.  See
    “restfulness” bugsCP74
    <https://patentcenter-tickets.oppedahl.com/#CP74>,CP105
    <https://patentcenter-tickets.oppedahl.com/#CP105>, andCP121
    <https://patentcenter-tickets.oppedahl.com/#CP121>. (I’ll count this
    as one bug, so now we are up to “4”.)

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