Admin interface - browser requirement

[Christian Reis]

On Sat, Sep 21, 2002 at 01:50:23PM +0100, Gervase Markham wrote:
> 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.)

One other possibility would be to use an HTML TABLE with "up" and "down"
buttons, though accessibility-wise the labels do suffer a bit.
Javascript could, in this case, as a shortcut to allow moving the items
without reloading the page, and it's fairly easy to do the non-JS form
submission by checking on button pressed.

  1. Bugzilla        (^ up  ) (v down)
  2. NSPR            (^ up  ) (v down)
  3. Calendar        (^ up  ) (v down)
  4. Browser         (^ up  ) (v down)
  5. CCK             (^ up  ) (v down)

I would rather not loose support for Lynx editing products, and I
don't think its a reasonable trade off.  For large numbers of products
(I'd say over 20), editing the sortkeys directly in an advanced
interface should also be considered.

Take care,
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Christian Reis, Senior Engineer, Async Open Source, Brazil.
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