1178087 - Dead and useless Links in Menu 'Debug → Verifications' , complete menu item should be dropped

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1258226

(SeaMonkey :: UI Design, defect)

Description

[Rainer Bielefeld]

Menu 'Debug → Verifications' of  DE SeaMonkey 2.35(γ)  (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:38.0 nightly by Adrian Kalla)  Gecko/20100101 Build 20150616034436 (Classic Theme) on German WIN7 64bit contains some dead links:

a) Larger page: does not exist, Error 404
b) Smaller page: does not exist, Error 404
c) city.net: Page not found
d) Mirabilis: forwarded to http://www.icq.com/de

The rest of the links seem rather useless to me, show an arbitrary selection of web pages without any explication fro what that demo should be useful.

I think the menu item "Verifications" should be dropped.

Comment 1

[tannishk sharma]

i would like to work on this bug

Comment 2

[Rainer Bielefeld]

(In reply to tannishk sharma from comment #1)
Great! Do you already know how to start or do you need some hints (where to find the source code ...)?
Generally such UI issues are a good possibility to get familiar with code and project. 
In "Bug 188255 - element properties items misaligned" currently [e-mail] is doing some first steps in the code, may be you can do some coworking and exchange of experiences?

@Tummala Dhanvi: are you interested in some cowork?
@Philip: Can you do some first mentoring or pass the task?

Comment 3

[Tummala Dhanvi [:c0mrad3][UTC+5.30]]

Yes I am interested in co-work :)

Comment 4

[tannishk sharma]

yes i need some help where is the source code and which file to remove the menu item from ??

Comment 5

[Tummala Dhanvi [:c0mrad3][UTC+5.30]]

Update:- 

@tannishk sharma has contacted me via email on getting started with cloning the source code and building the  SM I have pointed him to https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Simple_SeaMonkey_build and asked him to contact me if he was struck some where 

I am waiting for his response to on his progress :)

Comment 6

[John Duncan]

Attachment: Updates dead links to redirect to Mozilla's archived versions

Here is a proposed patch that replaces the dead `Larger Page,' `Smaller Page,' and 'GIF Images' portions of the verification pane with links to their 'http://www-archive.mozilla.org' counterparts. As for Mirabilis and city.net; those sites seem to be remnants of the 90s and at this point should probably just be removed (also included in patch).

Comment 7

[Tummala Dhanvi [:c0mrad3][UTC+5.30]]

(In reply to John Duncan from comment #6)
> Created attachment 8666478 [details] [diff] [review]
> Updates dead links to redirect to Mozilla's archived versions
> 
> Here is a proposed patch that replaces the dead `Larger Page,' `Smaller
> Page,' and 'GIF Images' portions of the verification pane with links to
> their 'http://www-archive.mozilla.org' counterparts. As for Mirabilis and
> city.net; those sites seem to be remnants of the 90s and at this point
> should probably just be removed (also included in patch).

Well this bug is being worked by https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/user_profile?login=tannishk%40gmail.com 

it's suggested that you comment on the bug before starting to work on it. 

so that one will come to know that you are working on it and don't want some one else working on it. 

also make use of the Need more information form and the review ? flag for the patch

Comment 8

[Tony Mechelynck [:tonymec]]

Hm, yes, the SeaMonkey Debug & QA UI is badly outdated. I suppose this problem should be fixed first on trunk, and then ported (or not) to aurora etc.

Comment 9

[Rainer Bielefeld]

NEW due to <https://blog.seamonkey-project.org/2015/11/25/my-unconfirmed-bug-reports/>

Anything new concerning fixing this? questions, suggestions?

Still REPRODUCIBLE with  English SeaMonkey 2.43a1  (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:46.0)  Gecko/20100101 Firefox/46.0 Build 20160109003001  (Default Theme) on VirtualBox Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

Comment 10

[Frank-Rainer Grahl (:frg)]

Just found this by accident. Looks like I fixed this in Bug 1258226. 

John if you put another patch up set review? or feedback? so that it doesn't get lost in time.