576468 - Pagination machinations on stats page is a tad funky

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(addons.mozilla.org Graveyard :: Statistics, defect)

Description

[Stephen Donner [:stephend] Not actively reading bugmail]

Potch, the pagination on https://preview.addons.mozilla.org/z/en-US/firefox/addon/5326/statistics/downloads/ is funky, in that it doesn't:

A) show you the number of total pages
B) ellipsize (sp?) in the middle and have endcaps (usually beginning with the first page and ending with the last, 'cuz that's handy)

Comment 1

[Fred Wenzel [:wenzel]]

(In reply to comment #0)
> B) ellipsize (sp?)

/me votes yes on that, though Merriam-Webster seems indifferent. Might be a neologism from the world of tl;dr on the Internet ;)

Comment 2

[Potch [:potch]]

one of the issues I have is that I actually don't know how many pages there are in the pagination, as I simply ask the server for more data when the user clicks next, and only refuse to advance a page when no data is returned. I'd like to come up with a far better solution for this.

Comment 3

[Pratibha]

With new design for stats page, following is current scenario:
There are 2 buttons: Previous and Next

Note: comment#2 also is addressed in bug 686643

screencast: http://tinyurl.com/6ld2tyn

Comment 4

[Wil Clouser [:clouserw]]

(In reply to Potch [:potch] from comment #2)
> one of the issues I have is that I actually don't know how many pages there
> are in the pagination, as I simply ask the server for more data when the
> user clicks next, and only refuse to advance a page when no data is
> returned. I'd like to come up with a far better solution for this.

Sounds like a good reason to wontfix?  People seriously interested in that data are going to be consuming the csvs anyway.

Comment 5

[Potch [:potch]]

Yeah, let's WONTFIX this.