TreeTagExposure

Status: Discussion phase - modest urgency

(Tracker-tracker issue 12 marks this issue. Brainstorming about it is probably best conducted here, with conclusions going in the tracker issue...)

I'm just about convinced that the increasing exposure of detail in an issue should be handled with the tree tag. We would still be using the combined browse/search interface to span the issues, but rather than shifting to a new page to examine the details within issues and items, we'd instead provide tree tag controls to elaborate issue details "in place".

Thus the issue synopsis page would be outmoded, the item detail pages would only be necessary for comprehensive-detail appropriate for the process of responding.

The levels would be:

• Top-level browse across issues - minimal detail
• Open an issue to see a terse synopsis, with a +/- exposure control for each summary item and one for the collection of plain correspondence, if any. The synopsis items would have followup links, and there would be one link to start a new thread.
• Open the item exposure controls to see the gory details for items.
• Open what is now the item details view for responding.

anthony, 2000-06-28

I'm not too convinced by this.

*right now it's bad enough that most entries in an issue history are truncated to 5 or 6 lines - making people click-click-click to see the full history would probably lead to mouse-rage :) Perhaps if there was also a show full details link for each item?*

I've also noticed that the tree-tag and maintainable code rarely coincide, but that's probably a less dramatic problem.

• klm, July 5 - Actually, this is a good heads-up for me - i haven't used the tree tag, yet, and all this warns me to not presume simplicity...

Owner: KenManheimer