On Mon, Jan 04, 2021 at 12:49:58PM -0800, Terri Oda wrote:
- Old mailman "skin" for postorius
Make mailman look like the 2.1 interface for people who really love the old system. There's a few options that would be different, but the goal would be to make it pretty much look the same only with a few options changed, for people who are very change adverse. We had intended for it to be *possible* to reskin Postorius, but I don't think too many people have done it, so this would be a test to see how doable that is and probably fix any underlying issues that make reskinning the interface hard. Honestly, we could also have a student do a brand new skin if we had someone who loved UI design, but I suspect replicating the old interface would be less work, and since this year's GSoC hours have been cut in half, i'd rather start with something easier.
Good call!
On this front: last time I checked, Postorius seemed to *require*, for at least some features, that users browse with JavaScript enabled.
However, there exist good security reasons, and also good accessibility reasons (depending on one's disability), to *not* browse the web with JavaScript enabled.
So, if a GSOC student takes up your suggestion and makes a 2.1-like skin for Postorius, please could you (or whoever ends up mentoring) work with the student to try to ensure that the skin is *entirely* usable without JavaScript. Aaron Gustafson's "Adaptive Web Design" (1st ed) would probably be a good starting point: https://adaptivewebdesign.info/1st-edition/index.html
Thanks for reading this far. And if I was mistaken (or out of date) about Postorius requiring JavaScript, I would be very happy to stand corrected.
(Lest I seem to be complaining unduly, I should add that other than the Postorius issue mentioned above, I think MailMan is pretty great on the whole and I am grateful that it exists and continues to be maintained/improved.)
Sam
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