[qmtest] GUI changes

[Mark Mitchell]

--On Monday, December 16, 2002 04:56:14 PM -0500 eichin at metacarta.com wrote:

> Just checking if this is intentional (or an artifact of my own
> somewhat bludgeoned package/install):  when I create a test, I get a
> "Resources
>
> Resources on which this test depends. "
>
> stanza towards the bottom, which has two buttons, [add another] and
> [remove selected], but doesn't have the selection box 1.1.5 had.  if I
> hit add-another, I get an empty text-edit box with a checkbutton next
> to it.   (Needless to say, I prefer the other way, for a gui...)

This behavior is intentional.  (In a way, it's a good thing if people
object to the 2.0 GUI saying "I liked 1.1.5 better" -- at least that
means we used to know how to do things well...)

Some people objected to the use of pop-ups; some people have actually
disabled them entirely in their browsers.  So, we were trying to minimize
that.  And, a selection box with 15,000 entries turns out not to work
very well. :-)

The current bit is cumbersome partly because Mozilla doesn't know about
the full DOM model for tables; you can't add table rows and such using
the DOM.  So, we have to go back to the server.

What we really want is a hierarchical selector gizmo.  We'll get there...

> This is using galeon (debian x86 1.2.7-5), if that matters... but if I
> try netscape (4.77), I get

Right; note that 2.0 explicitly requires Mozilla/Netscape 6/IE 6.

We decided that Netscape 4 was dead.  Perhaps reports of its death have
been greatly exaggerated.  We're trying to move towards XHTML/DOM, and
Netscape 4 makes that pretty tough.

-- 
Mark Mitchell                mark at codesourcery.com
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