On Wed, May 14, 2003 at 09:58:24AM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote: > >> On http://www.debian.org/Bugs/: > >> * Include severity: critical grave serious important normal minor wishlist > >> fixed > >> * Exclude severity: critical grave serious important normal minor wishlist > >> fixed > > >> Things that should be addressed by the wording on that page: > >> What defaults? > > C> Isn't it clear that the initial state of all the radio buttons and > C> checkboxes shows you the defaults? I thought it was (after all, it has > C> to be that way or the form submission will do something other than the > C> "default"). > > Well, of the two lines I quoted, none of the boxes are checked. > However, the results produced act like all the "Include severity" > boxes were checked. So why aren't they initially checked when the > user encounters them?
Because it would produce a most vomitously long URL. Not checking any of the include/exclude boxes is a useful edge case, and is treated the same way as checking all the include boxes. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
