Modification to Bugzilla

[Myk Melez]

Bradley Baetz wrote:

>On Mon, Jul 21, 2003 at 10:39:53PM +0100, Gervase Markham wrote:
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>>Yes - ditch Netscape 4.x support, and move to a CSS-based layout which 
>>allows you to show/hide individual fields without ripping the page 
>>apart. This would also allow people to configure Bugzilla to show only 
>>the fields they wanted (Developer view, QA view, manager view.)
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>the problem is that we can't ditch ns4 support without ditching support
>for lynx and screen readers. I'd love to drop ns4 support, but thats
>not the only reason we're not using CSS
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CSS was designed to degrade gracefully on browsers that don't support 
it, and that feature works pretty well, IMHO.  Obviously a CSSified 
version of of the bug editing form won't look as structured for NS4 
users as the current one, but it'll be readable and minimally usable, 
and that's what counts (when talking about a small minority of users).

There's an opportunity cost here, and we need to weigh the cost of 
making Bugzilla less usable for NS4 users against the benefit of making 
it more usable for the vast majority of users who are using CSS-capable 
browsers.  Note also that I would expect lynx to do quite well with a 
CSS-based layout.  I'm less sure about screen readers.

-myk

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