Bug#421826: [pkg-horde] Bug#421826: annoying HTML bug in mailbox header on Opera and IE7

[Ola Lundqvist]

severity 421826 important
thanks

Hi Jamie

On Tue, May 01, 2007 at 04:31:28PM -0400, Jamie ffolliott wrote:
> > Hi Jamie
> > 
> > On Tue, May 01, 2007 at 03:10:47PM -0400, Jamie ffolliott wrote:
> > > Package: imp4
> > > Version: 4.1.3-4
> > > 
> > > There's a very annoying formatting bug in IMP's mailbox, 
> > shows in IE7.
> > > 
> > > The fix is dead simple,
> > > http://bugs.horde.org/ticket/?id=3392
> > > 
> > > (actually the file is 
> > > /usr/share/horde3/imp/templates/mailbox/header.inc)
> > 
> > Ok, thanks.
> > 
> > > Please add this to the stable package.
> > 
> > I'll see what I can do. However it is _not_ likely that it 
> > will be accepted as the severity is not that high, or do have 
> > an other opinon about the severity?
> 
> Well unfortunately the majority of webmail clients are generally not linux
> users or firefox users.  For the large number of IE clients, the mailbox
> interface doesn't show me any part of the header bar, where it is supposed
> to say:
> 
> "Inbox (xxx), links for: refresh, apply filters, & search; page 1 of X, 1 to
> 20 of XXX messages"
> 
> It's invisible.  Well without that, IMP's clearly missing some key
> functionality for webmail.

I see.

> And really thie fix is so trivial and harmless, it's a shame this app wasn't
> tested in IE7 before debian's release.

I tend to agree. However I package the upstream version and I really thought
that the stable version was tested with IE. Is it equally bad in IE6?

> Why not just get it fixed?

I can fix it trivially for unstable, however I'm not the one that decides
what is included in a point release for stable. I'll see if I can
convince the stable release managers that this bug is important
enough.

Regards,

// Ola

> 

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