117371 - Explanation on Prefs -> Advanced no longer makes sense

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 65480

(SeaMonkey :: Preferences, defect)

Description

[Eric Vaandering (no email)]

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Eric, would you care to clarify _why_ it makes no sense?

Comment 2

[Eric Vaandering (no email)]

On the top level Advanced preferences panel, there is this text:

Checked items are automatically enabled when you visit web pages that use them.
If you uncheck an item, pages may load faster but some functionality will be
limited.

This is below

[ ] Enable Java
[ ] Enable JavaScript for *Mail and Newsgroups*

This is confusing, since there is only one item that applies to web pages now
that all the JS settings are on their own panel.

Several possible ways to fix this:

1) Move the text between the two check boxes and make it refer just to Java.
2) Move JS for Mail to the Scripts and Windows panel
3) Get rid of the text, after all this is advanced. If your messing with these
settings you should know what is in the text already.

A side point, the text should be *above* the settings it's referring too. Also,
how does setting the anonymous FTP password help "Interpret web pages"

As I write this bug and look at the panel, the more I realize that this panel
needs some major design work.

Comment 3

[Eric Vaandering (no email)]

Sorry, about the first one. Hit Enter in one of the fields and it submitted
before I got to the description.

Comment 4

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

To UI design to develop a UI specification

Comment 5

[Andrew Hagen]

Looks good on Build ID: 2002022203. Resolve as worksforme?

Comment 6

[Eric Vaandering (no email)]

This has changed slightly, but I still think this panel is a complete
non-intuitive mess.

An anonymous FTP password has nothing to do with "Interpreting web pages"

Comment 7

[Andrew Hagen]

You're right. The top text: "Enable features that help interpret web pages" is
incredibly inaccurate. It has nothing to do with the cache, proxies, HTTP
networking, the Mouse Wheel, anonymous FTP, or much of the other advanced options.

How about changing the top text to, "Advanced Configuration Options." 

Would that change be enough?

Comment 8

[Andrew Hagen]

This bug seems to conflict with bug 65480.

Comment 9

[timeless]

uid is being phased out.

Comment 10

[Samir Gehani]

Nav triage team: nsbeta1-

Comment 11

[Peter Weilbacher]

Duping as Andrew suggested

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 65480 ***