Re: question about cross-browser (i.e., old netscape) DHTML

[Luis Villa <louie ximian com>]

On Wed, 2002-08-07 at 01:20, Alex Duggan wrote:
> When I finish up the art.gnome.org stuff and get that site out the door,
> I would like to help out on this.

Cool. Still ideally looking for someone I wouldn't be dragging away from
other gnome projects, though... ;)

Luis

 On Wed, 2002-08-07 at 01:13, Luis Villa wrote:
> > So... I'm thinking the Next Step for bugzilla usability and power for us
> > is going to have to involve dynamic bug forms that are extremely simple
> > by default but then allow the page to dynamically expand to a more
> > traditional, powerful format without reloading the whole damn thing.
> > 
> > Problem: Roughly 1/4 of our hits are from NS3->NS4.7. [1] So anything
> > I/we do has to fail fairly gracefully in older versions of Netscape. Is
> > there any hope for this to happen without doing javascript-y version
> > detection? Or am I going to have to do something nasty-ish?
> > 
> > Better yet, is anyone (other than Steve and Jeff- they need to be
> > getting their butts in gear on the new site, dammit ;) volunteering to
> > help out? It should be an interesting challenge for anyone good with
> > this type of thing, and hopefully not too ime consuming. 
> > 
> > Let me know (on the list, no need to reply-to-all...) 
> > Luis (and many thanks in advance, of course...)
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > [1]Other numbers: Another 36% are from Mozilla/5*, 15% from gnome-vfs
> > (this is bug-buddy), 16% NS4.0, 10% Mercator (?), 9% NS4.5, 4% NS4.7, 3%
> > NS3, 3% NS2(!), 1.7% from Google(!), 1.4% from Opera, 0.70% from
> > links|Links|lynx|Lynx, 0.81% from *onq*, 0.6% from non-google bots,
> > 0.024% from IE, 0.018% from nautilus. Note that all of these numbers are
> > utterly rough[2]- cat agent* | grep blah | wc -l. 
> > 
> > [2] So if anyone has a suggestion for a freestanding agent log analysis
> > script (I was too lazy/tired/sick-ish to write one myself) please let me
> > know ;) 
> > 
> > 
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