Vincent Massol wrote:
> On Sep 1, 2009, at 10:15 AM, Silvia Rusu wrote:
> 
>> Hi devs,
>>
>> I propose we make "Edit this attachment" in the "Attachments" tab an
>> advanced feature in the advanced edit mode.
>>
>> When trying to use "Edit this attachment":
>> - in IE you get the following message: "Could not initialize a  
>> required
>> ActiveX object"
>> - in FF 3.5.2 installing the extension delivers the following
>> message:"FoxWiki 1.0b could not be installed because it is not  
>> compatible
>> with Firefox 3.5.2".
>> - installing the extension on an older version of FF requires  
>> additional
>> configuration, which the average user may not know how to perform.
>>
>> Under the above circumstances I think "Edit this attachment" will  
>> cause
>> confusion for the average user instead of providing a useful tool.
>>
>> WDYT?
> 
> -0 (bordering to -1) I think the pb is not advanced vs simple user.  
> It's about making the feature work, even for advanced users.
> 
> Right now from what you say this feature is not working well enough  
> and should be disabled by default for all users IMO, till we fix it.  
> Cannot we verify that the correct FoxWiki extension is installed  
> before activating the feature automatically?

The feature detects if FoXWiki is installed, and:
- if it is installed, make WebDAV work
- if not, propose to install it

So right now it's behaving as expected, but FoXWiki cannot be installed 
in this version of FF. It's a FoXWiki problem, not an XWiki one.
-- 
Sergiu Dumitriu
http://purl.org/net/sergiu/
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