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So, I just released Bugzilla 3.2rc2, which is probably the first real "release candidate" I've ever released--that is, as far as we're aware, this could be 3.2 tomorrow, if there are no bugs. Of course, we're going to wait to see what feedback is ... [More] like, but I'm hoping to release Bugzilla 3.2 two weeks from now.This is also the only time we've done a lot of UI polish in the RC stage, and I'm actually glad we did it. Part of the reason is that it's the first release where we've really started to focus on the UI (and had some help from real HCI folks, thanks pyrzak!).-Max [Less]

So, I just released Bugzilla 3.2rc2, which is probably the first real "release candidate" I've ever released--that is, as far as we're aware, this could be 3.2 tomorrow, if there are no bugs. Of course, we're going to wait to see what feedback is ... [More] like, but I'm hoping to release Bugzilla 3.2 two weeks from now.This is also the only time we've done a lot of UI polish in the RC stage, and I'm actually glad we did it. Part of the reason is that it's the first release where we've really started to focus on the UI (and had some help from real HCI folks, thanks pyrzak!).-Max [Less]

So, I just released Bugzilla 3.2rc2, which is probably the first real "release candidate" I've ever released--that is, as far as we're aware, this could be 3.2 tomorrow, if there are no bugs. Of course, we're going to wait to see what feedback is ... [More] like, but I'm hoping to release Bugzilla 3.2 two weeks from now.This is also the only time we've done a lot of UI polish in the RC stage, and I'm actually glad we did it. Part of the reason is that it's the first release where we've really started to focus on the UI (and had some help from real HCI folks, thanks pyrzak!).-Max [Less]

So, I was working on a feature for Bugzilla, and I found that while Gecko (Firefox, Seamonkey) can hide tags with "display: none", in IE (including IE 7), you can't do a single thing to option tags with CSS, except maybe change their text color. IE ... [More] doesn't even support the "disabled" attribute on options. There are some options around the web for faking the disabled attribute, but they're not that great and I wanted to hide the option, anyhow, not just disable it.So basically, I wracked my mind--how could I possibly do it? Then I thought, "Hmm, what if I put some other tag in there instead of an option tag?" And lo and behold, I found that browsers will let me have a [Less]

So, I was working on a feature for Bugzilla, and I found that while Gecko (Firefox, Seamonkey) can hide tags with "display: none", in IE (including IE 7), you can't do a single thing to option tags with CSS, except maybe change their text color. IE ... [More] doesn't even support the "disabled" attribute on options. There are some options around the web for faking the disabled attribute, but they're not that great and I wanted to hide the option, anyhow, not just disable it.So basically, I wracked my mind--how could I possibly do it? Then I thought, "Hmm, what if I put some other tag in there instead of an option tag?" And lo and behold, I found that browsers will let me have a [Less]

So, I was working on a feature for Bugzilla, and I found that while Gecko (Firefox, Seamonkey) can hide <option> tags with "display: none", in IE (including IE 7), you can't do a single thing to option tags with CSS, except maybe change their ... [More] text color. IE doesn't even support the "disabled" attribute on options. There are some options around the web for faking the disabled attribute, but they're not that great and I wanted to hide the option, anyhow, not just disable it.So basically, I wracked my mind--how could I possibly do it? Then I thought, "Hmm, what if I put some other tag in there instead of an option tag?" And lo and behold, I found that browsers will let me have a <script> tag inside of a <select> tag. So I could replace disabled options with a <script> tag as a placeholder, using JS.But that didn't quite work well enough. Then I found out that IE6 and above support creating commentNodes in the DOM--basically, just adding a comment with some text into a document. So that's what I ended up doing--I replaced hidden options with comments! After about a day and a half of hacking, I now have it all working in a patch on the bug.Anyhow, I thought this might be useful information for anybody else who's tried to do the same thing.-Max [Less]

So, I was working on a feature for Bugzilla, and I found that while Gecko (Firefox, Seamonkey) can hide tags with "display: none", in IE (including IE 7), you can't do a single thing to option tags with CSS, except maybe change their text color. IE ... [More] doesn't even support the "disabled" attribute on options. There are some options around the web for faking the disabled attribute, but they're not that great and I wanted to hide the option, anyhow, not just disable it.So basically, I wracked my mind--how could I possibly do it? Then I thought, "Hmm, what if I put some other tag in there instead of an option tag?" And lo and behold, I found that browsers will let me have a [Less]

So, I was working on a feature for Bugzilla, and I found that while Gecko (Firefox, Seamonkey) can hide <option> tags with "display: none", in IE (including IE 7), you can't do a single thing to option tags with CSS, except maybe change their ... [More] text color. IE doesn't even support the "disabled" attribute on options. There are some options around the web for faking the disabled attribute, but they're not that great and I wanted to hide the option, anyhow, not just disable it.So basically, I wracked my mind--how could I possibly do it? Then I thought, "Hmm, what if I put some other tag in there instead of an option tag?" And lo and behold, I found that browsers will let me have a <script> tag inside of a <select> tag. So I could replace disabled options with a <script> tag as a placeholder, using JS.But that didn't quite work well enough. Then I found out that IE6 and above support creating commentNodes in the DOM--basically, just adding a comment with some text into a document. So that's what I ended up doing--I replaced hidden options with comments! After about a day and a half of hacking, I now have it all working in a patch on the bug.Anyhow, I thought this might be useful information for anybody else who's tried to do the same thing.-Max [Less]

On planet.m.o, I see tons of tinyurl’s used to point to lists of bugs (a.k.a buglists). When you run a complex query, this is indeed the best solution for now (till bug 400063 is fixed), but in many cases, the query is simple enough to avoid tinyurl. How? Use QuickSearch! For those who don’t know, QuickSearch [...]

As I see more and more people asking when Bugzilla 3.2 final will be available for download, I decided to blog about it here: We will first release Bugzilla 3.2 RC2! This hard decision has been taken during our last Bugzilla meeting last week. The reason is that we did many checkins since RC1 and [...]