[mb-users] "Edit All" - Is it problematic to understand?

[Stefan Kestenholz]

On 7/23/06, Beth <imbethers at aim.com> wrote:
> I just read through this list and would like to add a few comments.
>
> There seems to be a lot of assumptions on many people's parts and the
> missing of teasing comments to lighten the mood of a once very heated
> debate.
>

> I can as well agree with Steve on if you check how the edit will change and
> then your edits disappear when you go back to the edit page, that would be
> very annoying if it still does that. I would request those input fields
> don't get cleared in that instance. Though, using Firefox and my mouse's
> back button didn't clear what I had changed. (maybe that as well has already
> been fixed.)

To clarify this: The idea of the "Review edits" "open | all" links are
to review edits that have already been entered into the system before.
The next screen, after all warnings are resolved takes you to the
"Review" screen of the release editor, where you can see the changes
*you* will enter against the release if you submit the page.

These links have just an informational purpose. For me, its quite
clear that clicking on a link navigates away from a page, but neither
did it clear the fields when i used the back button from the "browse
edits" page that was openend when clicking on such a link. I assume
(or take as granted) that these links are openend by users in a new
tab (or window, depending of the browser they currently use). There is
a reason i haven't done this as popup links, there were some other
tickets in the bug tracker that suggested to change all links into
plain links, since one can't choose to open a page in a new tab if
there is javascript handling for opening links into a new window in
place.

regards, stefan