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Bug 17241
Opened 25 years ago
Closed 25 years ago
Add about:<developer>
Categories
(Core :: Networking, enhancement, P5)
Core
Networking
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VERIFIED
WONTFIX
People
(Reporter: BenB, Assigned: BenB)
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Details
(Keywords: helpwanted)
about:shaver is redirected to http://people.netscape.com/shaver.
The function compares the name with an encoded list of Netscape developers and
adds "http://people.netscape.com/" as prefix when it finds a match.
This is a cool and funny solution for 4.x, but inappropriate for an open source
project.
Change to nonencoded names (easier), nsString (easier) and arbitrary URLs
(non-Netscape developers).
Question: can I use C++ after simply renaming to mkabout.cpp or do I/you/we have
to change Makefiles?
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Updated•25 years ago
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Status: NEW → ASSIGNED
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Comment 1•25 years ago
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cc gagan, maybe he can answer my question.
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Updated•25 years ago
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Summary: Add non-Netscape people to about:<developer> → Add about:<developer>
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Comment 2•25 years ago
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Oops, I was looking in (the old) netlib. about: looks a lot nicer in necko, but
about:<developer> seems to have gone.
I think, a better way of doing this is sending to www.mozilla.org, which
redirects to the correct URL. This way, sync with credits is easier, too. cc'ing
endico for hooks on the webserver. Comments?
Changing summary to reflect the change.
Comment 3•25 years ago
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This is a lot of trouble to go through for an easter egg. My preference is to
let about:<developer> die. It was a cute idea when there were only a handful of
developers whose home pages were all in the same place. I'd rather work on stuff
that helps ship the browser.
On the other hand, if you could wire up about:credis to point to
http://www.mozilla.org/credits/, that would be really helpful!
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Comment 4•25 years ago
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about:credits should be really easy in comparison. Filed bug #17279.
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Updated•25 years ago
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Priority: P3 → P5
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Comment 5•25 years ago
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Dawn: It wasn't my intention to give you more work than you already have. I
would do it own my own, but I can't...
I like the idea, *especially* in an open source project, where most contributors
get nothing than a lot of fun.
But I agree with you, that there are more important things to do. Marking P5.
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Updated•25 years ago
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Status: ASSIGNED → RESOLVED
Closed: 25 years ago
Resolution: --- → LATER
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Comment 6•25 years ago
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LATER.
Bulk move of all Networking-Core (to be deleted component) bugs to new
Networking component.
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Comment 8•25 years ago
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REOPEN, helpwanted
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Updated•25 years ago
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Severity: normal → enhancement
Comment 9•25 years ago
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i would just like to reiterate that this is a really bad idea.
it was a cute idea back in the mozilla 0.x days when there were
a dozen people on the list but now that there are hundreds of
people to keep track of this will wind up being a big waste of
time. Lets have useful code, not easter eggs.
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Comment 10•25 years ago
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OK
Status: REOPENED → RESOLVED
Closed: 25 years ago → 25 years ago
Resolution: --- → WONTFIX
Comment 11•25 years ago
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FWIW about:credits works now...
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Comment 12•24 years ago
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How about that: We have contributors.html anyway, and we need to add urls there
anyway.
Why not add |id="nick"| to each <a>, then fetch the doc and do
load(document.getElementById("nick").getAttribute("href")).
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Comment 13•24 years ago
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btw: I propably won't work on it before N6 (more important things...), unless
I'm want to play with the DOM or so.
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