On Thu, Dec 19, 2002 at 04:28:22PM -0800, Ian Clarke wrote: > > > You keep saying that - but I haven't seen a shread of support. WHAT IS > > > WRONG WITH SIMON'S IDEA? > > It does not address the issue of redundancy. > > You can keep repeating that as much as you like, it won't make it true! > A few emails back I outlined exactly how I think this should be > implemented based on Simon's original idea. WHY WON'T THAT WORK?! What > information will that not show that a newbie would want to see? > > > What about retries? You'll have to move blocks that need to be retried > > to the right hand extreme, so why not go with the scheme I suggested in > > the other mail (involving a fixed box, and successes are one contiguous > > block filled from the left, and permanent failures are filled from the > > right). :) > > Don't be a total idiot. You don't need to draw each block individually, Simon's initial graphic did have blocks drawn individually, or at least colors reused. > rather you split the bar up into several components (4 in my proposal > IIRC), each representing the number of blocks in each of the 4 states I > outlined. More than four. 1. Not tried yet. 2. Trying. 3. Failed, retrying. 4. Got. 5. Failed repeatedly, given up on this one. > > > > It will use JavaScript, but will fail gracefully if it isn't present. > > Ugh. Blech. Gerbleghl. > > Best argument you have made all day. Probably :) If you can't see what's wrong with using javascript to implement the UI, then it's not worth my time to try to explain it to you. > > Ian. > > -- > Ian Clarke ian@[freenetproject.org|locut.us|cematics.com] > Latest Project http://cematics.com/kanzi > Personal Homepage http://locut.us/
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