38704 - "Page Source" doesn't make sense in the context of a message.

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, defect, P3)

Description

[Henrik Gemal]

In the View menu of the Mozilla mail the "Page Source" should be changed to
"Mail Source..." since this is what the menuitem actually shows.

Build 2000050908

Comment 1

[jglick]

I think that "Mail Source" is confusing.  Kinda sounds like it has something to 
do with the sender of the message.

"Page Source" is more accurate and consistent with the Browser. 

Comment 2

[Henrik Gemal]

Page source?????
Come on....

What about "Message Source" then?

Comment 3

[simone]

IMHO -- If we really want to be accurate, we should change it to HTML Source, 
since that's what it really is. I believe that's what the menu item is called in 
Composer.

Comment 4

[jglick]

I believe Composer uses Edit/HTML Source when you want to edit the raw html and 
View/Page Source when you just want to look at the source html (no editing).

In Mail, if you are reading a *plain text* message, it wouldn't be really 
View/HTML source then?  View/Page (or Message) source would be more accurate.

Comment 5

[simone]

Yes, you're right in that you could use it for plain text messages. I was just 
thinking what this feature is mostly used for, and that is to view the HTML 
source. I was assuming that people using plain text wouldn't care to use this 
feature, but you do get to see all the headers in message, regardless of whether 
 it's a plain text or HTML message. 

HOWEVER -whatever we change menu item to, should we also change the menu command 
directly below it which currently says "Page Info"? Using the same argument that 
you're not viewing a page, but a message? Gotta do them both, IMHO. I don't care 
if it's Message or Mail, although I prefer Mail because it's shorter.

Comment 6

[Daniel Bratell]

What about 
"View raw mail" (or "View raw message")?  IMHO, that's more informative than the 
word "source" in this context.

Comment 7

[timeless]

Since i'm the one who is most likely to make the change, my opinion does not 
matter. jglick, I'd like Message source. But I'm not going to do anything 
without approval.
Changing subject. useless notes: NC4 uses Page Source. OE [once you can get to 
the correct dialog] uses "&Message Source ..." which brings up your generic 
view-source window [very much like netscape]

Comment 8

[jglick]

"Message Source" is fine if folks think that is better. But as Simone mentioned, 
"Page Info" (menu item below) should be changed to "Message Info" as well for 
consistency.

Comment 9

[robinf]

Adding myself to cc: list.

Comment 10

[timeless]

accepting.

Comment 11

[jglick]

FYI, Mail Compose Menus are affected by this also.

Comment 12

[timeless]

Marking fixed, this bug had an m18 milestone target and had to be fixed before 
too much intl stuff went out of sync. Page info has disappeared from Mail, i 
don't know when or when but it did.

Comment 13

[Henrik Gemal]

This has nothing to do with "Page Info". This bug has to do with the item in 
the menu saying "Page Source". The wording "Page Source" gives no meaning in a 
mail message context.

Comment 14

[timeless]

Yes and I fixed that. verifyme.
my comments about pageinfo were in response to [e-mail] 2000-08-07 
14:01. I agree if we had a page info it should be changed. But since we don't 
there's nothing left to do.

Comment 15

[Ninoschka Baca]

Branch Build 2000-09-27-11MN6 (M18): NT4, Linux 6.0, Mac 9.04
Verified Fixed.

Comment 16

[Ninoschka Baca]

Correction on build number.
Branch Build 2000-09-27-11MN6: NT4, Linux 6.0, Mac 9.04

Comment 17

[Ninoschka Baca]

Reopening to verify on the trunk.

Comment 18

[Ninoschka Baca]

Set to Fixed and placed 'vtrunk' as keyword.

Comment 19

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

Verified Fixed with 100306 linux trunk mozilla, 100308 win32 trunk mozilla and 
100310 mac trunk mozilla builds.  It now reads View|Message Source.  Marking bug 
as Verified and removing vtrunk keyword.