Re: Sourceforge: an apology (and Mailman: some hate)

2007-04-20 Thread Peter da Silva
Because some browsers (such as Firefox) and browser accelerators attempt to fetch the first few links on a page *before* the user clicks on them, so that clicking will be much faster. D'oh! Your acceleration just changed your settings. ;-) Jesus Wept. What happens when the first link is somet

Re: Ubuntu Feisty hate

2007-04-20 Thread Andy Armstrong
On 20 Apr 2007, at 21:53, Jonathan Stowe wrote: And there I was thinking that the bloody stupid names were all that there was to hate about it. I'm still a fanboy. I like the names and I've got a while to wait before the upgrade doodab pisses me off: http://flickr.com/photos/andyarmstrong/4

Re: Ubuntu Feisty hate

2007-04-20 Thread Jonathan Stowe
On Fri, 2007-04-20 at 16:11 +0100, Robert Rothenberg wrote: > I was a clone and decided to upgrade Ubuntu from Egregious Eft to Festering > Fawn. Sh'loads of hate And there I was thinking that the bloody stupid names were all that there was to hate about it. /j\

Re: Sourceforge: an apology (and Mailman: some hate)

2007-04-20 Thread Timothy Knox
Somewhere on Shadow Earth, at Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 04:22:05PM -0400, Adam Atlas wrote: > > On 20 Apr 2007, at 16.14, Ask Bjørn Hansen wrote: > >>What you want to do is use single-submit-button forms, not links. > >>(Eg. you have one for each action rather than a link, with > >>a submit button as

Re: Sourceforge: an apology (and Mailman: some hate)

2007-04-20 Thread Adam Atlas
On 20 Apr 2007, at 16.14, Ask Bjørn Hansen wrote: What you want to do is use single-submit-button forms, not links. (Eg. you have one for each action rather than a link, with a submit button as UI to trigger the action.) Ooh, I hate those.Hello slow web-application, please force me to c

Re: Sourceforge: an apology (and Mailman: some hate)

2007-04-20 Thread Ask Bjørn Hansen
On Apr 20, 2007, at 10:02 AM, A. Pagaltzis wrote: * David Cantrell [2007-04-20 17:55]: FWIW, in my own interwebnet applications, I don't use radio buttons, I have links which the user clicks to immediately submit their choice to the server. GET implies that the client can't be held responsi

Re: Ubuntu Feisty hate

2007-04-20 Thread Peter da Silva
Sounds like they've almost completed turning Linux into Windows.

Re: [offlist] Re: Sourceforge: an apology (and Mailman: some hate)

2007-04-20 Thread A. Pagaltzis
* Patrick Quinn-Graham [2007-04-20 20:00]: > On 20-Apr-07, at 6:02 PM, A. Pagaltzis wrote: > >What you want to do is use single-submit-button forms, not > >links. (Eg. you have one for each action rather than a > >link, with a submit button as UI to trigger the action.) > > You can achieve this

[offlist] Re: Sourceforge: an apology (and Mailman: some hate)

2007-04-20 Thread Patrick Quinn-Graham
On 20-Apr-07, at 6:02 PM, A. Pagaltzis wrote: * David Cantrell [2007-04-20 17:55]: FWIW, in my own interwebnet applications, I don't use radio buttons, I have links which the user clicks to immediately submit their choice to the server. What you want to do is use single-submit-button forms,

Re: Sourceforge: an apology (and Mailman: some hate)

2007-04-20 Thread A. Pagaltzis
* David Cantrell [2007-04-20 17:55]: > FWIW, in my own interwebnet applications, I don't use radio > buttons, I have links which the user clicks to immediately > submit their choice to the server. GET implies that the client can't be held responsible for whatever change on the server is caused by

Re: Sourceforge: an apology (and Mailman: some hate)

2007-04-20 Thread Andy Armstrong
On 20 Apr 2007, at 16:48, David Cantrell wrote: FWIW, in my own interwebnet applications, I don't use radio buttons, I have links which the user clicks to immediately submit their choice to the server. That's not very RESTful :) -- Andy Armstrong, hexten.net

Sourceforge: an apology (and Mailman: some hate)

2007-04-20 Thread David Cantrell
I have ranted several times about Sourceforget's customised mailman allowing non-subscribers to post to mailing lists despite being configured not to. Cos I was *sure* I'd turned that option on. Oops, it was turned off. I hate it when I'm the PEBCAK. Mailman is still hateful though. The user i

Ubuntu Feisty hate

2007-04-20 Thread Robert Rothenberg
I was a clone and decided to upgrade Ubuntu from Egregious Eft to Festering Fawn. Sh'loads of hate Like what that the upgrade manager does when it sees that I've changed a default configuration file and wants to know if it should overwrite, etc... it never makes a backup. The most obvious f