alvaro at sun
Apr 28, 2008, 1:22 PM
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On 28 Apr 2008, at 22:13, Miguel Angel Ajo Pelayo wrote:
> I think the javascript solution is better, because it let you
> submit a set of configuration changes atomically.
Agree.
A code snipped or implementation example would be really useful.
Well.. or even better, does somebody volunteers for this? ;-)
> Greetings,
> Miguel Angel
>
> 2008/4/28 Alvaro Lopez Ortega <alvaro[at]alobbs.com>:
> Hi Gunnar,
>
> It is a usability issue, indeed.
>
> I can think of a couple ways for fixing it: The first one would be to
> remove the Apply button from the side bar and force the local "submit"
> buttons to punch the configuration into the server.
>
> The second choice would be to add some Javascript code to warn the
> user if he tries to leave a modified page without submitting the
> changes. Since this is the most popular behavior I guess it is simply
> a better approach.
>
> Help from skilled web developer would be greatly appreciated
> here.. :-)
>
>
> On 28 Apr 2008, at 20:11, Gunnar Wolf wrote:
>
> > severity 477946 minor
> > thanks
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am copying this message over to the Cherokee upstream mailing
> list,
> > as I think they might be interested in actually solving the
> > bug. People, please look over at
> > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=477946 for the
> actual
> > bug report.
> >
> > I think the bug is rather a usability issue (otherwise, it is an
> > unreproducible bug :) as cherokee-admin _does_ work for me). The
> thing
> > is, for most screens at least, clicking on 'submit' will only modify
> > cherokee-admin's in-memory representation of the configuration - It
> > won't even cause the server to change its behaviour. Only when you
> > click on 'Apply', on the left panel, are the changes saved and the
> > server status gets changed (AFAICT, it is basically restarted).
> >
> > So, what do I propose, dear upstream community? Maybe it would be
> good
> > to add some checks, i.e. by Javascript, to remind the user to apply
> > the changes if he navigates away from the page without saving his
> > work?
> >
> > Greetings,
> >
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