Gus What?!

Last year, the AIM Triton development team decided to play a little (silly) April Fools joke on QA. We were getting ready for our first public beta of AIM Triton and have been developing the UI in Boxely.

The team decided to throw in some code to make it impossible to activate the signon button. You couldn’t set focus to the button and every time you tried to move the mouse over it, the button would jump out of the way. It did it for about 20 jumps and then popped up a dialog saying something to the effect: “haha April Fools”. US QA got a kick out of it. No one, that I recall, wrote a bug on it.

The funniest part was having to explain what “April Fools” was to our international QA team.

This year we are not doing any pranks (or are we?). Happy April Fools.

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