Admin interface - browser requirement

[Christian Reis]

On Sat, Sep 21, 2002 at 06:57:05AM -0700, Myk Melez wrote:
> > 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?
> 
> It's certainly much more reasonable than confining the vast majority of 
> our administrators to the clunky UI supported by browsers only a small 
> minority of our administrators use.

I thought a bit about this, and my proposal for UI is a bad one. I
withdraw it and put a paper bag on my head. The main problem with it is
the non-scrolling of the HTML table which makes the buttons change
position, and that would suck.

However, I still don't think we should abandon lynx and other
text-browsers.

> Note that you can support both, however, by making the list reordering 
> buttons submit to the server on non-JavaScript browsers and reordering 
> server-side.  It's clunky, but it does provide the necessary 
> functionality.  On the other hand, we could just make 'em use SQL.

Yeah, we could make it server-side, as a fallback. Sounds good.

Hacking SQL is quite an evil alternative; I think a compat interface
that allowed editing sortkeys directly isn't too evil an idea. It does
fork the UI on the functionality, though.

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