50763 - Old-style What's related sidebar preferred

Status: VERIFIED WONTFIX

(SeaMonkey :: Sidebar, defect, P3)

Description

[David Hallowell]

Build 2000082915 WinNT 4.0

In todays builds the layout of the What's Related sidebar panel has changed. I
preferred the style of the old one as it was similar to the other built in
Mozilla sidebars and was also easy to read. This new sidebar panel just looks
like a third party addon sidebar. Also the font size used on this panel is
harder to read than the previous version.

Comment 1

[David Hallowell]

Changing assigned to and QA emails addresses based on those for bug 50594.

Reading this bug it looks like the new sidebar has some useful enhancements but
I think I preferred the apearance of the old sidebar. Although the good thing
about the new sidebar is that it doesn't have all the Netscape sponsored links
(I assume they'll be in NS6) but I just prefer the old sidebar.

But then again it could just be me, so what do others think?

Comment 2

[John Dobbins]

The appearance is bad enough. The link is worse. Alexa is owned by Amazon.com.
Software patents place open source projects in danger, and Amazon has allready
shown that they will misuse the horked US patent system. (1 click shopping
patent). I'd prefer the Netscape links to anything from Amazon.

Comment 3

[Ben Bucksch (:BenB)]

amazon? It has showed in the past that is unethnical. Not only with software
patents, but also with selling user data, which is relevant here. I suggest
removing it from the shippping options and leave it up to Netscape to provide it
as additional net-based panel.

We can reconsider adding "What's related", when we have a panel that queries
another provider (e.g. dmoz.org). This should be possible without server-side
support.

Comment 4

[Ben Bucksch (:BenB)]

Changing SUMMARY from "Old-style What's related sidebar preferred" to more
general "Shipping What's related panel". Yell, if you disagree.

Comment 5

[Ben Bucksch (:BenB)]

Found bug 53571. Ignore my comments above.

Comment 6

[Blake Ross]

Reassigning 50 Sidebar bugs to Matt.  I was told this was going to be done 
shortly about two months ago, but it clearly hasn't been.  I think that's long 
enough for all these bugs to remain assigned to nobody.

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Comment 7

[shrirang khanzode]

spam : changing qa to sujay (New Sidebar QA)

Comment 8

[matt]

alexa contributed the new sidebar related.  Lots of people like this

Comment 9

[David Hallowell]

I've got used to this so I won't disagree with the WONTFIX.

I see Netscape 6.1 still uses the old style What's related but requires a double
click to activate the links, this is annoying. I'm sure in the Mozilla builds
before the old style what's related was removed it had been changed to activate
on a single click, how did the commercial builds not get those changes?