[mb-devel] Re: Default display settings

[Bogdan Butnaru]

> 2007/4/30, Bogdan Butnaru <bogdanb at gmail.com>:
> > Hi! Recently I discovered that a certain setting causes very different
> > edit pages to appear for different people. This is very confusing, and
> > it cause lots of useless arguing, especially since it's unexpected.
> >
> > See the last half of this discussion ---
> > http://musicbrainz.org/show/edit/?editid=6790146 --- for the exact
> > symptoms, I don't think I can explain it any briefer here.
> >
> > Is there a good reason for this to happen?
> >
>
> IMO, whatever the settings, the same information should be displayed the
> same way (for example here the release titles should be capitalized the same
> way). So I would consider this a web interface bug.
>
> BTW, with all the discussions and the release title edits, I am lost. Could
> someone please tell me what MB displays when the "For "Add Release" edits,
> show the whole release ..." setting is checked and when it is unchecked?

As far as I can tell, the "Show the whole release" changes the
display. I suppose when it's disabled it only looks at the original
edit in the database, thus it displays the title entered by the first
editor; and when it's enabled, it probably does the same queries a
normal "show album" does, which automatically picks up the
newest-entered title.

This should be easy to check by just enabling/disabling the option and
visiting the link above. It would probably complicate things a bit for
the server code to fix this, but it would make things less confusing.

As for enabling the option by default, I think it would be a good
idea. It only hurts people who disable Javascript or who use
low-bandwith connections, and this class of people usually attempt to
'tweak' the sites they use often, anyway.

-- Bogdan Butnaru — bogdanb at gmail.com
"I think I am a fallen star, I should wish on myself." – O.