Re: [Mailman-Users] What would your dream Mailman web interface look like?

2015-04-27 Thread Jay Sekora
Sorry I'm getting to this so late... On 04/02/2015 03:48 PM, Andrew Stuart wrote: What’s on your wishlist for the perfect Mailman web interface? Well, the thing I find most frustrating about the current (2.X) Mailman web interface is the Adminsitrative Database Results page. I manage a bunch

Re: [Mailman-Users] What would your dream Mailman web interface look like?

2015-04-15 Thread Peter Shute
Here's another one - some way to flag a held message to warn moderators that its content is being discussed among moderators. It would be good if it was impossible to approve a flagged message until the flag was removed, to avoid accidental release. I don't think there needs to be any

Re: [Mailman-Users] What would your dream Mailman web interface look like?

2015-04-09 Thread Richard Damon
On 4/8/15 11:34 PM, Peter Shute wrote: Andrew Stuart wrote: What's on your wishlist for the perfect Mailman web interface? It would be helpful to me if it somehow allowed an iOS browser to stay logged in. I haven't found one that will - something to do with cookies expiring when the app is

Re: [Mailman-Users] What would your dream Mailman web interface look like?

2015-04-09 Thread Jim Popovitch
On Wed, Apr 8, 2015 at 9:07 PM, Steven D'Aprano st...@pearwood.info wrote: On Wed, Apr 08, 2015 at 09:29:23AM -0400, Jim Popovitch wrote: So, you do want to see the HTML content before it is interpreted by your computer? :-) As HTML is not executable code, interpreted is a misleading word

Re: [Mailman-Users] What would your dream Mailman web interface look like?

2015-04-08 Thread Brian Carpenter
cPanel has been fairly quick (but not immediate) about merging our updated releases with their custom mods, and making recent versions available to their customers. I expect this will continue with updates to Mailman 2.1. OTOH, it may be more difficult for cPanel to incorporate Mailman 3.

Re: [Mailman-Users] What would your dream Mailman web interface look like?

2015-04-08 Thread Mark Sapiro
On 04/08/2015 03:10 PM, William Bagwell wrote: My web hosting upgraded from 2.1.17 to 2.1.18-1 on June 5 2014 so I'm assuming cPanle customers (not end users like me) can upgrade Mailman when they chose? cPanel has been fairly quick (but not immediate) about merging our updated releases

Re: [Mailman-Users] What would your dream Mailman web interface look like?

2015-04-08 Thread Dave Stevens
Quoting Adam McGreggor adam-mail...@amyl.org.uk: On Thu, Apr 09, 2015 at 02:31:50AM +0900, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: The Justice Department has already said that the web is a place of public accommodation, and the ADA applies. It is only a matter of time before they issue specific

Re: [Mailman-Users] What would your dream Mailman web interface look like?

2015-04-08 Thread William Bagwell
On Monday 06 April 2015, JB wrote: Ive been gathering that based on the research I have been doing.  I am REALLY looking forward to the new version.  As soon as it is out I will have to put in a feature request to the cPanle folks to make the upgrade ASAP.  As an FYI, they are tad behind the

Re: [Mailman-Users] What would your dream Mailman web interface look like?

2015-04-08 Thread Peter Shute
Andrew Stuart wrote: What's on your wishlist for the perfect Mailman web interface? It would be helpful to me if it somehow allowed an iOS browser to stay logged in. I haven't found one that will - something to do with cookies expiring when the app is in the background, I think. Peter Shute

Re: [Mailman-Users] What would your dream Mailman web interface look like?

2015-04-08 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Tue, Apr 07, 2015 at 08:40:19PM -0700, JB wrote: Not kicking anyone's cat here but if the ADA applies to web sites then NO WEB PAGE EVER should be allowed to utilize that HORRIBLE 'flat' design strategy. Pages such as the new ESPN page are EXTREMELY difficult to read and sue for people

Re: [Mailman-Users] What would your dream Mailman web interface look like?

2015-04-08 Thread Carl Zwanzig
On 4/8/2015 6:07 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: All I asked for is that Mailman's web UI should degrade gracefully when Javascript is turned off. I'd ask for the same- a UI that -requires- JS to render into a usable page is probably overly complex or heavy on the glitz/light on the

Re: [Mailman-Users] What would your dream Mailman web interface look like?

2015-04-08 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Thu, Apr 09, 2015 at 02:31:50AM +0900, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: The only accessibility tool for the web that I'm familiar with is the ALT attribute for IMG and other non-text elements of HTML. I'm not an expert, but as I understand it, you can get a long way towards good accessibility by

Re: [Mailman-Users] What would your dream Mailman web interface look like?

2015-04-08 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Wed, Apr 08, 2015 at 09:29:23AM -0400, Jim Popovitch wrote: So, you do want to see the HTML content before it is interpreted by your computer? :-) As HTML is not executable code, interpreted is a misleading word to use. But taking it in the loosest possible way, no, of course not. I have

Re: [Mailman-Users] What would your dream Mailman web interface look like?

2015-04-08 Thread Mark Sapiro
On 04/08/2015 06:07 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: All I asked for is that Mailman's web UI should degrade gracefully when Javascript is turned off. Is that so wrong? No it's not and Mailman's developers are highly sensitive to this. I have not been very much involved in MM 3 development -

Re: [Mailman-Users] What would your dream Mailman web interface look like?

2015-04-08 Thread Teijo
8.4.2015, 3:26, Stephen J. Turnbull kirjoitti: (standards that don't start with RFC are generally not on our required reading lists). Please keep the details coming. We care, we just don't have the cycles to do it ourselves without help. As to WCAG 2.0, it's W3C's recommendation for Web

Re: [Mailman-Users] What would your dream Mailman web interface look like?

2015-04-08 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Executive summary: 1. Some aspects of accessibility (providing text alternatives for non-text media) can be treated like translation (and will increase the burden on translation!) 2. Frameworks need to help point out the pain points. Like: Yo! there's an ALT-less image here that

Re: [Mailman-Users] What would your dream Mailman web interface look like?

2015-04-08 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Teijo writes: As to WCAG 2.0, it's W3C's recommendation for Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20/). Maybe this standard is better, but most W3C standards are not very helpful to app developers. They're intended for library and framework developers, as well as

Re: [Mailman-Users] What would your dream Mailman web interface look like?

2015-04-08 Thread Jim Popovitch
On Tue, Apr 7, 2015 at 9:56 PM, Steven D'Aprano st...@pearwood.info wrote: On Tue, Apr 07, 2015 at 08:31:04AM -0400, Jim Popovitch wrote: On Mon, Apr 6, 2015 at 10:17 PM, Steven D'Aprano st...@pearwood.info wrote: I'm not happy when web sites *demand* that you run their untrusted and

Re: [Mailman-Users] What would your dream Mailman web interface look like?

2015-04-08 Thread Adam McGreggor
On Thu, Apr 09, 2015 at 02:31:50AM +0900, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: The Justice Department has already said that the web is a place of public accommodation, and the ADA applies. It is only a matter of time before they issue specific regulations. So, in the near future, anyone

Re: [Mailman-Users] What would your dream Mailman web interface look like?

2015-04-07 Thread Tanstaafl
On 4/6/2015 10:17 PM, Steven D'Aprano st...@pearwood.info wrote: It's not just the popup windows. It's not just the sites that hijack the right-click menu. It's not just the autoplay videos. It's not even the browser crashes! (Mostly Opera, Firefox seems a bit more stable.) Any one of them

Re: [Mailman-Users] What would your dream Mailman web interface look like?

2015-04-07 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Tue, Apr 07, 2015 at 06:50:55AM -0400, Tanstaafl wrote: On 4/6/2015 10:17 PM, Steven D'Aprano st...@pearwood.info wrote: It's not just the popup windows. It's not just the sites that hijack the right-click menu. It's not just the autoplay videos. It's not even the browser crashes!

Re: [Mailman-Users] What would your dream Mailman web interface look like?

2015-04-07 Thread Jim Popovitch
On Mon, Apr 6, 2015 at 10:17 PM, Steven D'Aprano st...@pearwood.info wrote: I'm not happy when web sites *demand* that you run their untrusted and untrustworthy code in your computer before you can see the content. How do you currently see the HTML content before it is interpreted by your

Re: [Mailman-Users] What would your dream Mailman web interface look like?

2015-04-07 Thread Teijo
6.4.2015, 2:17, David Andrews kirjoitti: A reminder that any web UI, whether end user, or administrator, needs to be accessible to disabled persons -- preferably it will use the WCAG 2.0 AA standards. Have developers of Mailman 3 default web Ui kept this important point in mind? Best,

Re: [Mailman-Users] What would your dream Mailman web interface look like?

2015-04-07 Thread Lucio Chiappetti
Sorry if I enter now in the thread at an arbitrary point. Sincerely I'm rather happy with the *current* mailman interface, and in particular I'm used to it. Considered that there should be quite a large base of mailman lists around, that they are unlikely to migrate to a new UI soon, and

Re: [Mailman-Users] What would your dream Mailman web interface look like?

2015-04-07 Thread Dave Stevens
Quoting Bill Cole mailmanu-20150...@billmail.scconsult.com: On 6 Apr 2015, at 20:02, Andrew Stuart wrote: Sounds like not working with JavaScript is something important to you. What’s the thinking behind wanting to work without JavaScript? Isn’t it kinda hard to navigate the modern web

Re: [Mailman-Users] What would your dream Mailman web interface look like?

2015-04-07 Thread Bill Cole
On 6 Apr 2015, at 20:02, Andrew Stuart wrote: Sounds like not working with JavaScript is something important to you. What’s the thinking behind wanting to work without JavaScript? Isn’t it kinda hard to navigate the modern web without JavaScript? I don't know the original poster's

Re: [Mailman-Users] What would your dream Mailman web interface look like?

2015-04-07 Thread Steven Clift
As someone who raised this issue 15 years ago and was seriously rebuffed with lots of notes that said essentially this is a mailing list and not a web forum I then started looking elsewhere. Anyway, my NGO has put a lot into our web interface for our primarily email based set of neighborhood

Re: [Mailman-Users] What would your dream Mailman web interface look like?

2015-04-07 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
David Andrews writes: A reminder that any web UI, whether end user, or administrator, needs to be accessible to disabled persons -- preferably it will use the WCAG 2.0 AA standards. We do use industrial-strength web frameworks, mostly Django. To the extent they support the

Re: [Mailman-Users] What would your dream Mailman web interface look like?

2015-04-07 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Tue, Apr 07, 2015 at 08:31:04AM -0400, Jim Popovitch wrote: On Mon, Apr 6, 2015 at 10:17 PM, Steven D'Aprano st...@pearwood.info wrote: I'm not happy when web sites *demand* that you run their untrusted and untrustworthy code in your computer before you can see the content. How do you

Re: [Mailman-Users] What would your dream Mailman web interface look like?

2015-04-07 Thread David Andrews
At 07:26 PM 4/7/2015, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: David Andrews writes: A reminder that any web UI, whether end user, or administrator, needs to be accessible to disabled persons -- preferably it will use the WCAG 2.0 AA standards. We do use industrial-strength web frameworks, mostly

Re: [Mailman-Users] What would your dream Mailman web interface look like?

2015-04-07 Thread JB
Not kicking anyone's cat here but if the ADA applies to web sites then NO WEB PAGE EVER should be allowed to utilize that HORRIBLE 'flat' design strategy. Pages such as the new ESPN page are EXTREMELY difficult to read and sue for people who have vision and reading disabilities. Having said

Re: [Mailman-Users] What would your dream Mailman web interface look like?

2015-04-06 Thread Andrew Stuart
Sounds like not working with JavaScript is something important to you. What’s the thinking behind wanting to work without JavaScript? Isn’t it kinda hard to navigate the modern web without JavaScript? as On 7 Apr 2015, at 9:48 am, J.B. Nicholson-Owens j...@forestfield.org wrote: Andrew

Re: [Mailman-Users] What would your dream Mailman web interface look like?

2015-04-06 Thread J.B. Nicholson-Owens
Andrew Stuart wrote: Any killer features that you’d like to see in the perfect Mailman web interface? Thanks for asking. Such an interface would work completely without running any Javascript to do anything the interface can do. If Javascript is turned off in the browser, the interface

Re: [Mailman-Users] What would your dream Mailman web interface look like?

2015-04-06 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Tue, Apr 07, 2015 at 10:02:32AM +1000, Andrew Stuart wrote: Sounds like not working with JavaScript is something important to you. What’s the thinking behind wanting to work without JavaScript? Isn’t it kinda hard to navigate the modern web without JavaScript? Yes it is, but not as

Re: [Mailman-Users] What would your dream Mailman web interface look like?

2015-04-06 Thread JB
was this... Change Log for 11.44.0.2 Thursday, December 04, 2014 11:35 AM Fixed case 99393: Updated mailman to 2.1.18-1. On Mon, 4/6/15, Mark Sapiro m...@msapiro.net wrote: Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] What would your dream Mailman web interface look

Re: [Mailman-Users] What would your dream Mailman web interface look like?

2015-04-05 Thread David Andrews
At 02:48 PM 4/2/2015, Andrew Stuart wrote: What’s on your wishlist for the perfect Mailman web interface? If you can provide links to show where your ideas are done well that would help to illustrate your thoughts. Any killer features that you’d like to see in the perfect Mailman web

Re: [Mailman-Users] What would your dream Mailman web interface look like?

2015-04-05 Thread Bryan Carbonnell
On Apr 5, 2015 7:27 PM, David Andrews dandr...@visi.com wrote: At 02:48 PM 4/2/2015, Andrew Stuart wrote: What’s on your wishlist for the perfect Mailman web interface? If you can provide links to show where your ideas are done well that would help to illustrate your thoughts. Any killer

Re: [Mailman-Users] What would your dream Mailman web interface look like?

2015-04-05 Thread JB
. On Sun, 4/5/15, David Andrews dandr...@visi.com wrote: Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] What would your dream Mailman web interface look like? To: Andrew Stuart andrew.stu...@supercoders.com.au, mailman-users@python.org Date: Sunday, April 5, 2015, 7:17 PM At 02

Re: [Mailman-Users] What would your dream Mailman web interface look like?

2015-04-05 Thread Mark Sapiro
On 04/05/2015 09:33 PM, JB wrote: There should be no predefined interface, at least none that is not customizable in any way what so ever. As a web developer I should make the decision on the look and feel on my end so that for each site I build, I can completely customize every aspect of

Re: [Mailman-Users] What would your dream Mailman web interface look like?

2015-04-03 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Fri, Apr 03, 2015 at 06:48:12AM +1100, Andrew Stuart wrote: What’s on your wishlist for the perfect Mailman web interface? If you can provide links to show where your ideas are done well that would help to illustrate your thoughts. Any killer features that you’d like to see in the

[Mailman-Users] What would your dream Mailman web interface look like?

2015-04-02 Thread Andrew Stuart
What’s on your wishlist for the perfect Mailman web interface? If you can provide links to show where your ideas are done well that would help to illustrate your thoughts. Any killer features that you’d like to see in the perfect Mailman web interface? as