214265 - Page Info UI

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Firefox :: Page Info Window, defect, P3)

Description

[Ben Goodger (use ben at mozilla dot org for email)]

Feature tracking. Page Info dialog is ugly and far too complicated. Requirements
analysis, re-specification and code changes as required.

Comment 1

[Pham]

You can merge Security/General

Get rid of Forms/Links/Media/General>ReferURL/General>Meta

Make size about same as IE's so I don't need to resize everything

Or just copy IE's cleaner one

Comment 2

[Daniel Brooks [:db48x]]

let's see, we can get rid of p3p for sure, and show security info in the other
tabs (currently there's no way to tell if the images on the page (for example)
were retrieved from a secure connection.)

The only thing I can think of that I'd really like to add would be a view of the
Dublin Core metadata. Showing the HTTP headers like livehttpheaders does would
also be nice. The thing I'd hate to see most is the forms tab, but then some of
the programming I do involves forms, so having all of the data about a form
summarized neatly (instead of groping through the source of an unfamiliar page)
is very useful.

I do have an idea for a way to make it less ugly, but I don't think it would
fit, and it wouldn't really make it any less complicated. I would hate to go and
copy IE's properties dialog, because it's useless. It sure is clean though. (On
the other hand, does it still have a tabgroup with a single tab in it? ;)

How do we go about deciding what needs to be in it? Is there a way we can
reliably ask a large number of end user types if they've even used it, or does
someone just decide?

Comment 3

[Pham]

I think there's going to be a default clean page info and then one that's like
the one right now in a developer pack

Comment 4

[Pham]

and I don't understand why Page Info is a window and not a dialog or one of
those windows without minimize/maximize

Comment 5

[Daniel Brooks [:db48x]]

Because half the time I maximize it. Gives you more room to see stuff, like long
image urls, etc.

I also left it resizeable/maximizable because if you change the font size
mozilla uses, not everything will fit in the window.

Then, there's the fact that you might want to have more than one page info
window open, or copy from page info and paste it into the urlbar, or just
otherwise mess with your other mozilla windows without page info getting in the
way. As a result, it's minimizable.

Comment 6

[Pham]

and while default page info is simplified, it'd also be nice if you make
advanced page info keep everything we have now but change UI to make it not so ugly

Comment 7

[Ben Turner (not reading bugmail, use the needinfo flag!)]

Should bug 265698 be marked as a dupe?

Comment 8

[Brian Polidoro]

Page Info is also deficient in terms of accessibility.  See bug 347215.

Bug 265698 isn't a dupe. I think this bug depends on that bug.  This bug encompasses more than just that.

Comment 9

[AndrewM]

Page Info has been quite significantly changed on the trunk since Firefox 2 (I cannot find the bug numbers atm). Should this bug still be open?

Comment 10

[Philip Chee]

I think all issues should have been fixed by Bug 339102. Marking FIXED. New issues should go into new bugs one bug per issue.