Re: Feature matrix filter - Mailing list pgsql-www

From Thom Brown
Subject Re: Feature matrix filter
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In response to Re: Feature matrix filter  (Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>)
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On 30 May 2013 11:54, Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net> wrote:
> On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 6:39 AM, Thom Brown <thom@linux.com> wrote:
>> On 30 May 2013 11:33, Dave Page <dpage@pgadmin.org> wrote:
>>> On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 10:09 PM, Thom Brown <thom@linux.com> wrote:
>>>> On 29 May 2013 21:16, Dave Page <dpage@pgadmin.org> wrote:
>>>>> Hi
>>>>>
>>>>> On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 7:01 PM, Thom Brown <thom@linux.com> wrote:
>>>>>> Howdy all,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Whilst at PGCon I briefly discussed with Stefan the idea of providing
>>>>>> a jQuery-powered filtering system for the feature matrix.  This is
>>>>>> because it's becoming increasingly bloated.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Prototype attached.  This should have no effect on those who have
>>>>>> Javascript disabled.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Feedback welcome.
>>>>>
>>>>> A couple of things spring to mind:
>>>>>
>>>>> - I think it's more natural to have the checkboxes after the labels,
>>>>> not before, e.g.
>>>>>
>>>>> 8.3 [x] 8.4 [x] 9.0 [x]
>>>>>
>>>>> (I actually found it quite off-putting having them the other way around).
>>>>
>>>> I agree as it happens.
>>>
>>> Definitely an improvement.
>>>
>>>>> - By default, perhaps we should only show supported versions and
>>>>> betas/alphas, so the grid isn't too big when the user starts.
>>>>
>>>> Easy enough.
>>>>
>>>>> - Should we automatically hide obsolete features if they're obsolete
>>>>> in all displayed versions? Maybe that should be a checkable option (on
>>>>> by default) shown below the list of versions along with "Hide
>>>>> unchanged features"
>>>>
>>>> That should be the case with the "hide unchanged features" checkbox
>>>> checked anyway.  The rule is, if it's the same value across all
>>>> displayed versions (regardless of whether they're all "Yes", "No" or
>>>> "Obsolete"), the row becomes hidden.
>>>
>>> Yeah, I get that. I'm just suggesting that obsolete features should be
>>> treated differently, as they're even less interesting than something
>>> that was implemented before the first version show.
>>>
>>> Regardless of that, I do think that checkbox should be on it's own line.
>>
>> Unfortunately the latest version of my distro of choice was released
>> yesterday, so after 3 versions of not upgrading I decided to upgrade
>> (fresh install), but now I'm on Django 1.4.5/Python 2.7, and I can't
>> get the site running locally again. :/
>
> I've got a branch that works with 1.4 (well, ish - markdown is broken,
> but in general it works) to be used when we get to wheezy. I can try
> to push it up to github tonight or tomorrow so you can work off that
> to test things.

Great, thanks. :)  I'll leave it until then.

--
Thom



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