Bug#434504: please categorize with <span> and/or <div> the <li> bug elements
On Mon, 13 Aug 2007, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 24, 2007 at 06:24:33AM -0700, Don Armstrong wrote:
> > > Hi, I'm working on a patch for the bugs.debian.org css which should help
> > > in seeing more "compact" bug listings wrt the current pages. Overall the
> > > generated HTML pages already have the needed classes which can be used
> > > to implement the change.
> > >
> > I could make such a patch, but I'd first rather see the mockup which
> > shows the utility of those changes.
>
> Hi Don, I'm working on this. Though I haven't yet needed the
> categorization I've mentioned, I've some intermediate step which I like
> and would like to share with you. The point is: if you don't agree with
> some of the principles I'm implementing is pointless to go ahead :)
> Attached you can find 2 pairs of html/css documents:
> - vim_old.html / bugs_old.css
> - vim_new.html / bugs_new.css
> The former are the documents from which I started mangling css/html, the
> latter the current state of the art.
Not sure why I missed this bug, but it looks pretty reasonable. I'm
going to be implementing templating in pkgreport.cgi before I really
seriously look at making these changes, but it seems to be ok.
> Beside some general compaction of the layout I've implemented (for the
> moment manually, directly on the generated HTML) the following changes,
> listed with their rationale below:
> - enclosed in a box (will need a new <div>) the additional information
> about the package being seen at the beginning of the page
> - changed the various values "Name Surname <email>" so that "<email>" is
> not listed; rationale: they are always links and clicking on them one
> can fine the email address, which is not necessarily needed in the
> triage view of pkgreport
Yeah; see below too.
> - removed "xx years and" heading strings. I believe a global count in
> days like "775 days" is far more telling (though less like natural
> language) than "XX years and YY days". Since the years part requires a
> lot of space on a line I'm proposing to remove it
That can be done; I think we may want to just compact this even more
by making this a rollover or some sort of floating box that shows this
information which is normally hidden; as it is now, there's so much
information which is displayed in such a compact form which isn't
terribly useful to see all the time immediately.
> - enclosed in a div the "navigation" links available at the top of the
> page, that enables (if interested) to make via css the navigation bar
> float to the left of the page
Probably useful.
Don Armstrong
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