Closed Bug 117371 Opened 23 years ago Closed 20 years ago

Explanation on Prefs -> Advanced no longer makes sense

Categories

(SeaMonkey :: Preferences, defect)

defect
Not set
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 65480

People

(Reporter: ewv, Assigned: bugs)

References

(Blocks 1 open bug)

Details

Eric, would you care to clarify _why_ it makes no sense?
On the top level Advanced preferences panel, there is this text: Checked items are automatically enabled when you visit web pages that use them. If you uncheck an item, pages may load faster but some functionality will be limited. This is below [ ] Enable Java [ ] Enable JavaScript for *Mail and Newsgroups* This is confusing, since there is only one item that applies to web pages now that all the JS settings are on their own panel. Several possible ways to fix this: 1) Move the text between the two check boxes and make it refer just to Java. 2) Move JS for Mail to the Scripts and Windows panel 3) Get rid of the text, after all this is advanced. If your messing with these settings you should know what is in the text already. A side point, the text should be *above* the settings it's referring too. Also, how does setting the anonymous FTP password help "Interpret web pages" As I write this bug and look at the panel, the more I realize that this panel needs some major design work.
Sorry, about the first one. Hit Enter in one of the fields and it submitted before I got to the description.
To UI design to develop a UI specification
Assignee: sgehani → mpt
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Component: Preferences → User Interface Design
Ever confirmed: true
QA Contact: sairuh → zach
Looks good on Build ID: 2002022203. Resolve as worksforme?
This has changed slightly, but I still think this panel is a complete non-intuitive mess. An anonymous FTP password has nothing to do with "Interpreting web pages"
You're right. The top text: "Enable features that help interpret web pages" is incredibly inaccurate. It has nothing to do with the cache, proxies, HTTP networking, the Mouse Wheel, anonymous FTP, or much of the other advanced options. How about changing the top text to, "Advanced Configuration Options." Would that change be enough?
Keywords: mozilla1.0, nsbeta1
This bug seems to conflict with bug 65480.
uid is being phased out.
Assignee: mpt → ben
Component: User Interface Design → Preferences
QA Contact: zach → sairuh
Nav triage team: nsbeta1-
Keywords: nsbeta1nsbeta1-
Product: Browser → Seamonkey
Duping as Andrew suggested *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 65480 ***
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 20 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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