I wanted to test in IE7, but I cannot sign up for a new account on my machine (localhost:8080). Is the signup page broken or is it only me?
/Anne On 2. apr. 2010, at 08.27, Richard Hirsch wrote: > 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 >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>> >>> >>
