bwarsaw@beopen.com (Barry A. Warsaw) writes:
But I think I see where you're headed! Yes, if SF doesn't work for you for whatever reason (e.g. you don't have reliable web access),
It's not the problem of web access, but of general crappiness of web interfaces and web browsers. Don't get me wrong -- web interfaces are fine for some things, as my introduction of Mailman to my company demonstrates. However, for non-trivial typing and editing, I really prefer to have editor/mailer of my choice available.
Thanks for your time.
"Hrvoje" == Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@iskon.hr> writes:
Hrvoje> It's not the problem of web access, but of general
Hrvoje> crappiness of web interfaces and web browsers. Don't get
Hrvoje> me wrong -- web interfaces are fine for some things, as my
Hrvoje> introduction of Mailman to my company demonstrates.
Hrvoje> However, for non-trivial typing and editing, I really
Hrvoje> prefer to have editor/mailer of my choice available.I agree completely. It would be nice, at a minimum, if SF had an email interface for submitting bugs.
-Barry
On Mon, Jul 10, 2000 at 04:26:11PM +0200, Hrvoje Niksic wrote:
bwarsaw@beopen.com (Barry A. Warsaw) writes:
But I think I see where you're headed! Yes, if SF doesn't work for you for whatever reason (e.g. you don't have reliable web access),
It's not the problem of web access, but of general crappiness of web interfaces and web browsers. Don't get me wrong -- web interfaces are fine for some things, as my introduction of Mailman to my company demonstrates. However, for non-trivial typing and editing, I really prefer to have editor/mailer of my choice available.
As webinterfaces go, the SourceForge one is fairly ok, as long as your webbrowsers 'upload' feature works. I'm not entirely sure how standard this feature is, but it works with Netscape, and I think with IE as well. Typing in (or copy/pasting) the patch in the comment would make it practically useless, I agree ;)
And I, too, am perfectly willing to help the less endowed, browser/connection-wise, with submitting patches. ;-)
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Hrvoje Niksic wrote:
bwarsaw@beopen.com (Barry A. Warsaw) writes:
But I think I see where you're headed! Yes, if SF doesn't work for you for whatever reason (e.g. you don't have reliable web access),
It's not the problem of web access, but of general crappiness of web interfaces and web browsers. Don't get me wrong -- web interfaces are fine for some things, as my introduction of Mailman to my company demonstrates. However, for non-trivial typing and editing, I really prefer to have editor/mailer of my choice available.
While I understand the point of view, I feel honor-bound to point out that it's trivial to use whatever editor you like, and cut'n'paste (at least in most reasonable GUI environments these days) so that the restriction doesn't *have* to be quite so onerous. (Sun's internal bug tool has the same issues, and I use the same workarounds much of the time...)
At 02:29 PM 07/10/2000 -0700, Dan Mick wrote:
While I understand the point of view, I feel honor-bound to point out that it's trivial to use whatever editor you like, and cut'n'paste (at least in most reasonable GUI environments these days) so that the restriction doesn't *have* to be quite so onerous. (Sun's internal bug tool has the same issues, and I use the same workarounds much of the time...)
Web forms are, in my experience, pretty painful to cut-and-paste into. I've worked with a few bug tools based this way and they usually do nasty things to the text you just formatted for pasting....
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