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
>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>> 

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