John H. Robinson, IV wrote:
Webbrowsers are fine for displaying information, and simple interactive
things.
Which pretty well defines a bug reporting system.
The downside is that webbrowsers are so prevalent, and follow a rough
standard, that everyone thinks that is the best way to go to be
cross-platform.
And they are 100% correct. Want proof? Try sending a binary data blob
through email in a bug report (packet capture file, if you must know).
Which encoding do you use? Can the system handle attachments? Can the
system handle a file that big? etc.
Using a webbrowser. Click, select, wait for upload, done.
And that's before we even start discussing about the fact that you have
to *configure* the email system before you can file the bug report
because most systems use challenge response to block spammers.
Generally it is easier to configure lynx, links, or w3m than to
configure reception of mail.
And, heaven forbid, actually using ... like .. a *standard* ... rather
than rolling yet another incompatible, annoying interface. How pedestrian!
Glad you like email, but I'll stick with the web interfaces, TYVM.
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