History for TreeTagExposure

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  Status: Discussion phase - modest urgency

  ("Tracker-tracker issue 12":../Tracker/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