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[Graham Binns <graham@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

2009/9/22 Barry Warsaw <barry@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> As the subject says, right now this is a vague uneasiness I have.  I could
> be hallucinating or just not finding what I'm looking for, but I suspect
> that some of our pages are no longer reachable by normal navigation.  I
> think some pages are only accessible via url hacking.
>
> Case in point: I'm QA'ing Curtis's UI 3.0 update to the +driver page.  I can
> enter http://launchpad.dev/applets/+driver and see that the page is nicely
> formatted.
>
> But what if I start from http://launchpad.dev/applets?  How do I get to the
> +driver page?  There appears to be no link on the project index page, but I
> do see "Change details" (squirreled away at the bottom of the page, but
> that's a problem for a later email) so I click on that.  No +driver link
> there either, but there is a "Change people link" so I click on that.
>
> Nothing there either, except now I have a nice AJAX-y "Choose..." link next
> to the Driver field.  That's great, I can change the driver for the project,
> but it makes me pretty suspicious that the +driver page is an orphan.

If AJAX isn't available does the edit icon for the Driver field take
you to +driver? That's the usual case with most these apparently
orphaned leaves... they're boomerang forms, never to be seen unless
you happen to be running a shoddy browser.


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