1428903 - Interface summary's version timeline not drawing correctly

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Developer Documentation Graveyard :: Mozilla Platform, enhancement, P5)

Description

[Aditya Bharti [:adbugger]]

Attachment: Screenshot-2018-1-8 nsITelemetry.png

When opening pages like this one: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Tech/XPCOM/Reference/Interface/nsITelemetry , the 'Gecko version' line below 'Introduction' seems garbled. [Image attached]

According to :sheppy from #mdn:

Looks like something is failing in the script that draws the little compatibility bar thing we used on the XPCOM interface pages.

Because the bar is missing, but a couple of its labels are being drawn on top of each other.

Problem probably in VersionTimeline.ejs

Comment 1

[Eric Shepherd [:sheppy]]

I'm nearly positive this is in VersionTimeline, yeah.

To be honest, if we fix this at all, I'm inclined to redo VersionTimeline to just do a basic list like:

First implemented: <version>
Last changed: <version>
Deprecated: <version>
Obsoleted: <version>

And do away with the fancy bar diagram that doesn't really work well anymore given the rapid release cycle inflating version numbers the last few years.

Comment 2

[BMO Automation]

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