[Trac] Feedback request for the new Trac Diff features

[Emmanuel Blot]

I think quite the same as Christopher on this topic. I haven't tried
your new diff implementation yet, however. State-based web
applications often show subtile troubles, I think we should refrain
from using such a solution for Trac.

I *unfortunetly* do have to use a so-called "professional" bug
tracking tool at my office (whose name is the same than the most
famous text-editor in Unix world), which seems to be heavily based on
such kind of states. It is awfully bugged and I keep wondering if the
folks who have developed this product had ever seen a web application
before implementing it 8')

Up to now, Trac has not made usage of such states (with the exception
of sessions, and I already have trouble with them - however it's
off-topic). I hope we can keep avoiding them.

Cheers,
Manu

>  * cmlenz thinks it's not good Web application design,
>    because it goes against the expectations of the user
>    by maintaining some kind of state (the selected base),
>    and it looks like going through a ''modal'' dialog
>    of a desktop-based application