Admin interface - browser requirement
Gervase Markham
gerv at mozilla.org
Sat Sep 21 12:50:23 UTC 2002
It's long been Bugzilla's policy to support as many browsers as possible
on the standard user interface - down to, and including, Lynx. (Not sure
how well we work on Netscape 3, though.) We also never require JavaScript.
However, do we need to be as accommodating for the admin pages? For
example, sortkeys. The best UI for setting these would be a multi-select
list of items with buttons which triggered JavaScript to move items up
and down, and then create a form submission which reflected the new
order. But such JS and DOM could really only be made to work (without a
lot of headaches) in modern browsers (IE 5.5+, Mozilla/Netscape6+,
perhaps Konqueror.)
Is it reasonable to trade off, on the admin interface _only_, the
ability to support lots of old browsers against the ability to have a
more usable UI?
Gerv
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