259222 - Known Vulnerabilities page needs some clarification

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(www.mozilla.org :: General, defect)

Description

[Grey Hodge (jX)]

the color coding of the security vulnerabilities is actually not totally clear
at first. I was unsure if they were red for unfixed, etc. So, a small color key
would be appropriate. The coloring method is definetly unclear.

Second, the Date Fixed column is very important data, for the average uer, more
important that almost anything else, as many times they won't bother to
understand what the vulnerability is. This should probably be moved to the left,
maybe bold text, and for fixed bugs, maybe even a green checkmark or some visual
notification that it's fixed.

Comment 1

[Grey Hodge (jX)]

Bah. Part three: It should be titled "Known Vulnerabilities in Mozilla Products"
as opposed to "Known Vulnerabilities in Mozilla" since it includes Seamonkey,
Firefox, and Thunderbird.

Comment 2

[Nick Bebout]

Dan, is this something that would be OK with you?  I would be willing to work on
this.

Comment 3

[Daniel Veditz [:dveditz]]

For the average user the date fixed is 100% irrelevant, they need to know what
*release* contained the fix. The date is interesting only to folks who use
nightlies.

Rather than make small tweaks to this page we may want to revamp it completely,
creating more detailed advisory information in a separate file, and reduce the
information on this page to a one-line link to the detailed page. Or kill the
tabular format and have text sections with subheadings for each fixed bug.

We'd probably want to preserve the old info as-is moved into an archive file,
and apply any new format only to new releases. Or at best Mozilla 1.7 and later
(the current stable branch).

I'm happy for any suggestions that work.

Comment 4

[Marc Bejarano]

looks like this has been done?

Comment 5

[Daniel Veditz [:dveditz]]

I just fixed the headline to say "Mozilla Products"; this is done