Closed Bug 17241 Opened 25 years ago Closed 24 years ago

Add about:<developer>

Categories

(Core :: Networking, enhancement, P5)

Product:
Core
Component:
Networking
Type:
enhancement

Tracking

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Status:
VERIFIED WONTFIX

People

(Reporter: BenB, Assigned: BenB)

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Details

(Keywords: helpwanted) 

about:shaver is redirected to http://people.netscape.com/shaver.

The function compares the name with an encoded list of Netscape developers and
adds "http://people.netscape.com/" as prefix when it finds a match.

This is a cool and funny solution for 4.x, but inappropriate for an open source
project.

Change to nonencoded names (easier), nsString (easier) and arbitrary URLs
(non-Netscape developers).

Question: can I use C++ after simply renaming to mkabout.cpp or do I/you/we have
to change Makefiles?
Status: NEW → ASSIGNED
cc gagan, maybe he can answer my question.
Summary: Add non-Netscape people to about:<developer> → Add about:<developer>
Oops, I was looking in (the old) netlib. about: looks a lot nicer in necko, but
about:<developer> seems to have gone.

I think, a better way of doing this is sending to www.mozilla.org, which
redirects to the correct URL. This way, sync with credits is easier, too. cc'ing
endico for hooks on the webserver. Comments?

Changing summary to reflect the change.
This is a lot of trouble to go through for an easter egg. My preference is to
let about:<developer> die. It was a cute idea when there were only a handful of
developers whose home pages were all in the same place. I'd rather work on stuff
that helps ship the browser.

On the other hand, if you could wire up about:credis to point to
http://www.mozilla.org/credits/, that would be really helpful!
about:credits should be really easy in comparison. Filed bug #17279.
Priority: P3 → P5
Dawn: It wasn't my intention to give you more work than you already have. I
would do it own my own, but I can't...

I like the idea, *especially* in an open source project, where most contributors
get nothing than a lot of fun.

But I agree with you, that there are more important things to do. Marking P5.
Status: ASSIGNED → RESOLVED
Closed: 25 years ago
Resolution: --- → LATER
LATER.
Bulk move of all Networking-Core (to be deleted component) bugs to new
Networking component.
REOPEN, helpwanted
Status: RESOLVED → REOPENED
Keywords: helpwanted
Resolution: LATER → ---
Severity: normal → enhancement
i would just like to reiterate that this is a really bad idea.
it was a cute idea back in the mozilla 0.x days when there were
a dozen people on the list but now that there are hundreds of
people to keep track of this will wind up being a big waste of 
time. Lets have useful code, not easter eggs.
OK
Status: REOPENED → RESOLVED
Closed: 25 years ago → 24 years ago
Resolution: --- → WONTFIX
FWIW about:credits works now...
How about that: We have contributors.html anyway, and we need to add urls there
anyway.
Why not add |id="nick"| to each <a>, then fetch the doc and do
load(document.getElementById("nick").getAttribute("href")).
btw: I propably won't work on it before N6 (more important things...), unless
I'm want to play with the DOM or so.
verified Wontfix
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
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