482982 - Finding the revision that introduced a change is well-nigh impossible

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(developer.mozilla.org Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

STEPS TO REPRODUCE:

1) Load https://developer.mozilla.org/En/NsIAutoCompleteSearch
2) See the text that says "Can be null" in bold under previousResult.
3) Decide you want to figure out who added that text and what else they changed
   in that edit.
4) Curse the lack of an annotation functionality.
5) Click history.
6) Decide to do a binary search on revisions to see when the text first
   appeared.
7) Select the oldest version and the third-oldest one (the latter at 16:23 on
   2008-05-12) and compare.
8) See that the text is not there.
9) Hit the browser back button.

ACTUAL RESULTS: You discover that the compare radio buttons are no longer in the state you set them to, so you lose your place in the search.  Cry and give up.

EXPECTED RESULTS: Not reset your radio buttons, so that you can keep searching through the list without losing your place until you find what you want.

Comment 1

[John Karahalis [:openjck]]

Fixed in Kuma. I think your point about making it easier to find who introduced a change is a great idea. In fact, we are thinking about doing just that in bug 770706.