[imp] IMP_4_0_ALPHA autoexpand and Expand Names question

Chuck Hagenbuch chuck at horde.org
Fri Oct 15 20:03:55 PDT 2004


Quoting "Kevin M. Myer" <kevin_myer at iu13.org>:

> I have no patch yet because I'm trying to understand why the code was written
> the way it was.  If there is a good design reason for doing the expansion in
> different ways, I don't want to break that.  But from a non-technical 
> end-users perspective, autoexpand is going to be a major source of 
> frustration with the way it currently returns no results, unless a 
> unique address is found.

Because auto-expand doesn't reload the page; "Expand Names" does, 
making it much
easier to, oh, generate form fields (drop downs).

Of course it'd be nice of auto-expand just handled it all and generated drop
downs on the fly. And I think we can probably get rid of Expand Names, 
as such.

I'd also like to add an iframe driver to httpclient.js, and make Expand Names
use httpclient.

-chuck

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