Thanks for the UI-related work. It is great that others are doing UI work as well.
Unfortunately, I'm on vacation and can't do a stax deployment until Tuesday. :-< D. On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 1:00 AM, Ethan Jewett <[email protected]> wrote: > I just checked in word-wrap based fixes for both the timeline and the > popular messages/links. Word on the street is that this actually > should work in IE as well. Can someone build trunk and test, at least > on IE7? Any really long link with only normal characters in it (not -) > should trigger the issue. > > Thanks, > Ethan > > On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 12:09 AM, Anne Kathrine Petterøe > <[email protected]> wrote: > > OK, so we need to find a way to deal with text wrapping. > > We should probably decide which browsers to support in release 1.1 and > take it from there. > > > > > > On 28. mars 2010, at 19.22, Ethan Jewett wrote: > > > >> Yup, understood re. big companies still using IE6. I was just > >> wondering if any of our specific users (Siemens, at least) still > >> consider it supported internally. If not, then it might make sense to > >> consider not supporting it if it is a lot of extra work. > >> > >> On the messages front, it's just messages with long links, or other > >> long unbroken text strings that suffer the wrapping problem. > >> > >> Ethan > >> > >> On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 8:35 AM, Anne Kathrine Petterøe > >> <[email protected]> wrote: > >>> Is the wrapping problem for messages for all messages or just those > containing long links? > >>> > >>> The problem is that many big companies still use IE6 and won't care > about end-of-life dates. > >>> @Dick: IE6 support is still important for Siemens right? > >>> > >>> > >>> On 28. mars 2010, at 16.28, Ethan Jewett wrote: > >>> > >>>> Sounds like a good approach to me, but keep in mind that we still have > >>>> the wrapping problem for messages themselves. > >>>> > >>>> What is the situation with IE6 support at places that have this > >>>> deployed currently? I'm thinking since IE6 and most IE7 versions > >>>> end-of-life is July 13th, those working on the UI might not want to > >>>> put too much effort into it. > >>>> > >>>> Ethan > >>>> > >>>> On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 4:52 AM, Anne Kathrine Petterøe > >>>> <[email protected]> wrote: > >>>>> I am just afraid that text wrapping is something which will take a > significant amount of time to get right. > >>>>> Remember we have support the following browsers: > >>>>> IE6 > >>>>> IE7 > >>>>> IE8 > >>>>> Safari > >>>>> Firefox > >>>>> > >>>>> I think we should put it in the backlog for now and remove these > features from the UI for the 1.1 release. > >>>>> What say you? > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>> On 27. mars 2010, at 15.42, Ethan Jewett wrote: > >>>>> > >>>>>> Whoops! I just created ESME-186 and attached it there: > >>>>>> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ESME-186 > >>>>>> > >>>>>> Ethan > >>>>>> > >>>>>> On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 8:32 AM, Richard Hirsch < > [email protected]> wrote: > >>>>>>> On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 3:20 PM, Ethan Jewett <[email protected]> > wrote: > >>>>>>> > >>>>>>>> On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 4:58 AM, Richard Hirsch < > [email protected]> > >>>>>>>> wrote: > >>>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>>> What I'd like to do is use JQuery tool tips to display the help. > I just > >>>>>>>>> finished converting the action page and just deleted the help. > >>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>> That sounds just about perfect! > >>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>>> Good luck. Do you have suggestion of how to display a long url? > Maybe > >>>>>>>> with > >>>>>>>>> a mouse-over that displays the fulltext. > >>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>> I think for starters we could drop the # of clicks and get away > from a > >>>>>>>> table-based model to a list-based model in the html. That helps > >>>>>>>> compact things a bit and gives us more ability to use CSS for > managing > >>>>>>>> text display. The next step is to force wrapping, which to the > best of > >>>>>>>> my knowledge is not really possible in CSS2. Fortunately CSS3 has > the > >>>>>>>> "word-wrap:break-word" style, which does exactly what we want. > >>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>> I've attached a mock-up done using CSS3 using this approach. What > do you > >>>>>>>> think? > >>>>>>>> > >>>>>>> > >>>>>>> Email it to me directly, since the esme-dev mailing deamon usually > kills > >>>>>>> attachments. > >>>>>>> Or attach it to JIRA-100 item. > >>>>>>> > >>>>>>> > >>>>>>>> As a last resort, if we can't find a way to extend this to > non-CSS3 > >>>>>>>> browsers, we could probably do some fancy JS or something to > insert > >>>>>>>> spaces into the text representation of the link, allowing it to > wrap. > >>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>>> What about creating dialogs but not modal dialogs. > >>>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>> I think modal dialogs and normal dialogs suffer from the same > >>>>>>>> disadvantages in this situation. > >>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>> Ethan > >>>>>>>> > >>>>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>> > >>> > > > > >
