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Firefox bug gets fixed after 25 years

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Re: Firefox bug gets fixed after 25 years

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Post by nuccy »

sanderjd wrote: post #86
Xenoamorphous wrote: post #46

Off topic but I really dislike the trend of using “human readable durations” like “a month ago”, just tell me the bloody date, I can figure out for myself. Outlook (Mac version at least) is the worst offender. For emails prior to the current day it will say for example just “yesterday” and it will only show you the time if you click on the email. I get dozens of mails per day, having just “yesterday” for 50 messages…

I like it iff I can hover over the human readable version to get the actual timestamp.

Better the opposite - date by default and on hover human readable. People would more likely want to copy the actual date than the human readable delta.

Re: Firefox bug gets fixed after 25 years

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Post by robin_reala »

donio wrote: post #71
paol wrote: post #6

Ha! I was subscribed to this bug for most of those 25 years. Note that Firefox didn't exist at the time, this was filed against Netscape Navigator. Don't remember why I was subscribed to the bug, must have commented on it or something. Got the occasional email notification about it over the years, always got a chuckle out of it. Then a couple of days ago, lo and behold, it was fixed!

> this was filed against Netscape Navigator Mozilla Suite rather than Netscape Navigator. This is from 2000 which was well into the Mozilla era and I don't think that Netscape bugs made it into Bugzilla anyway.

Netscape 6 and 7 were reskinned Mozilla Suite. It was Netscape 4 that was (mostly?) pre-Bugzilla.

Re: Firefox bug gets fixed after 25 years

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Post by hu3 »

Izkata wrote: post #98
hu3 wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't need AI to check this info. In the same way I don't need a car if I have a horse :) I could have spent much more time compiling the same information myself. You're free to keep using horses though.

For this in particular you don't need to spend time on it, it's already been done: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_date_formats_by_countr...

indeed. Thank you for the link kind one

Re: Firefox bug gets fixed after 25 years

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Post by apitman »

sanderjd wrote: post #86
Xenoamorphous wrote: post #46

Off topic but I really dislike the trend of using “human readable durations” like “a month ago”, just tell me the bloody date, I can figure out for myself. Outlook (Mac version at least) is the worst offender. For emails prior to the current day it will say for example just “yesterday” and it will only show you the time if you click on the email. I get dozens of mails per day, having just “yesterday” for 50 messages…

I like it iff I can hover over the human readable version to get the actual timestamp.

This can have problems on mobile

Re: Firefox bug gets fixed after 25 years

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Post by apitman »

LeoPanthera wrote: post #72
jvdvegt wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hover? I'm on mobile...

This is kind of an aside, but hover is a perfectly valid UI mechanism, and I intensely dislike the trend of kneecapping the UI just to make it work on a touch screen. Some things just don't work well if you don't have a mouse. That doesn't mean we should throw them away. It just means that sometimes you need a mouse for real work. There's nothing wrong with that.

I think the point is more that if a feature requires a mouse to work, maybe that mode should be the optional path so it still works on mobile.

Re: Firefox bug gets fixed after 25 years

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Post by apitman »

smaudet wrote: post #58
bluSCALE4 wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Gotta love it when maintainers are afraid of code they allowed to get merged in.

Maintainers often change (leave/die/hired out/new job). What one maintainer knew and understood, is often fairy dust/spaghetti to another.

And skill level can vary vastly from one maintainer to the next. I suspect this will become a more and more significant problem as time goes on.
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