Asa Dotzler wrote:
>
> Phillip M. Jones, C.E.T. wrote:
>
> >
> > Phil Edwards wrote:
> >
> >>On Sun, May 13, 2001 at 02:26:04AM -0700, Alex wrote:
> >>
> >>>One of the things that you have to forgo is official tech support. There
> >>>isn't any official Mozilla tech support, since it is intended for
> >>>developers and people (largely volunteers) willing to test Mozilla and
> >>>report bugs and enhancement suggestions.
> >>>
> >>Okay. Well, then, here's an enhancement suggestion. :-)
> >>
> >>There's no easy way to get the current location into the clipboard.
> >>Under Netscape, there was a location-bar thingy which I could highlight
> >>and copy (using whatever copy'n'paste method I needed). Or I could pull up
> >>"view page info" and get some selectable text.
> >>
> >>With moz 0.9, the "view page info" text isn't selectable with the mouse.
> >>(Maybe that's just a Linux/X11 thing; we don't have a copy for any other
> >>platform.)
> >>
> >
> > The Email newsgroup clint is not getting full effort while the make the
> > web browser as close to perfect as possible. The featture you mention is
> > not turned on as of yet. Nor does view source work as well.
>
> I'm guessing that you didn't read this guy's post very closely or you're
> so obsessed about mail location field that you can't see what he is
> actually describing. It sounds to me like he is having a problem with
> the browser addressfield (URLbar).
>
> >
> > They do need to get on with work on these items as such services as
> > SpamCop uses the source info to do reverse lookups and send spam reports.
> >
> >
> >>There's no location bar at all, so I can't even tell where I am without
> >>some mouse operations (that in itself isn't a problem), let alone copy
> >>the text out. That little textbar on the "navigation bar" doesn't seem
> >>to have a use, maybe that's just unfinished code.
> >>
> >
> > Actually there is an RFE (Referral For Enhancement) Bug sybmitted by
> > myself for the Location Toolbar (similar to operation in Communicator
> > 4.7.7 in two pane mode. Although I use a Mac I assumed it was missing
> > for all platforms and made the referral for all versions.
>
> It seems like you take every oportunity (even when completely off topic)
> to point out the RFE (request for enhancement) for this mail location
> bar. If you really do want people to see and vote for your request why
> not post a link to the bug?
>
> >
> > If you wish to test. And you wish to report on or vote for bug fixes you
> > can join Bugzilla. If you do decide to go to Bugzilla. you can look up
> > bug report on Location Bar and vote for it.
> >
>
> Link?
>
> >
> >>Doing a right-click and getting Properties gives an /active/ link, but it
> >>isn't selectable, and trying to right-click on the link for a "copy link
> >>location" operation doesn't pop up a menu; it just follows the link to
> >>where I already am.
> >>
> >>Right now if I want to get the current URL into the clipboard, I have to go
> >>back a page, find the link that led me there (if there is one, and not some
> >>button/form), do a "copy link location" on it, and then go forward. Ugly.
> >>
> >>Thanks again for your time,
> >>Phil
> >>
> >>--
> >>pedwards at disaster dot jaj dot com | pme at sources dot redhat dot com
> >>devphil at several other less interesting addresses in various dot domains
> >>The gods do not protect fools. Fools are protected by more capable fools.
> >>
> >
> > Despite Mozilla's lack of polish at this point its a far better product
> > than Netscape6 as much as I regret saying so. I'm begining to think
> > Netscape/AOL don't give a **** about it.
> >
>
> Are you completely out of touch with this project? You post a lot for
> someone so unaware of the goings on of the project. Netscape pays
> hundreds of people to work fulltime on making Mozilla better. You really
> think that a company would pay hundreds of developers and QA engineers
> to work on something it didn't give a shit about?
>
> --Asa
>
> >
Its been pointed out that Mozilla is up to Version .9. Yet Netscape 6 is
based on Mozilla .6
Close to 6 month to a year old?
They should be implementing the same code checking daily (or on same
time schedule) as Mozilla.
N6 should be using M .9 code not M .6 code
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