On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 2:08 PM, Sergiu Dumitriu <[email protected]> wrote:
> Silvia Rusu wrote: > > Hi devs, > > > > I propose we make "Edit this attachment" in the "Attachments" tab an > > advanced feature in the advanced edit mode. > > > > When trying to use "Edit this attachment": > > - in IE you get the following message: "Could not initialize a required > > ActiveX object" > > - in FF 3.5.2 installing the extension delivers the following > > message:"FoxWiki 1.0b could not be installed because it is not compatible > > with Firefox 3.5.2". > > - installing the extension on an older version of FF requires additional > > configuration, which the average user may not know how to perform. > > > > Under the above circumstances I think "Edit this attachment" will cause > > confusion for the average user instead of providing a useful tool. > > > > WDYT? > > -1 > > This is a technical problem, but the feature is really nice especially > for simple users. It allows, for example, to edit Word attachments with > a simple click. > > Better: Fix FoXWiki to work with modern FF, make the script better > detect when WebDAV can be used in IE. > AFAIR WebDAV works OOB with IE and we have support for it. Attachment editing via WebDAV will work on IE without any plugins. It's firefox that needs an extension for WebDAV support (for which we extended FoXWiki). - Asiri > -- > Sergiu Dumitriu > http://purl.org/net/sergiu/ > _______________________________________________ > devs mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs > _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
