[dev] [cvs] commit: horde/config prefs.php.dist framework/Horde Horde.php framework/Horde/Horde Registry.php

Jan Schneider jan at horde.org
Mon Oct 3 02:24:16 PDT 2005


Zitat von Marko Djukic <mdjukic at horde.org>:

> Quoting Vijay Mahrra <vijay.mahrra at es.easynet.net>:
>
>> sometimes the richest featureset isn't the best option because of client
>> connection speed and dated pc's with limited memory, the majority of people
>> on these lists don't have these issues but there still are a lot of people
>> out there who do.
>>
>> sometimes you could find yourself using a recent browser but you are on an
>> extremely slow connection (dial-up) or underpowered pc, for example when on
>> holiday in another country at an internet cafe, and checking email (ok i
>> know i shouldn't check email on holiday) there's nothing you can do if
>> using imp.  that's when i find squirrelmail with it's basic and simple html
>> comes into it's own.
>>
>> if there is an easy way to simplify things and let the user choose, i would
>> welcome it.
>
> Maybe we should offer both automatic and a pref setting. I ripped out 
> the pref
> code I put in, and replaced it with a semi-automatic which saves a setting to
> the session. But now I'm thinking I should put back the pref one too.
> I was working from the assumption that some users would want the javascript
> disabled whatever browser they use, but I see the point also of users 
> prefering
> an automatic detection in different settings eg. Chuck's example of a work
> computer and a home computer.

How about a link on the login page instead, similar to the http/https 
switch in the example motd? It could even be put into the motd.php.dist 
too, so that admins can enable it explicitely if they want.

Jan.

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