Re: [webmin-devel] [RFC] replace "Standby timeout" field inedit_hdparm.cgi with a "slider"

[Jamie C. <jca...@we...>]

On 18/Oct/2007 01:07 Jean-Christophe Dubois wrote ..
> On Thursday 18 October 2007 09:42:42 Jean-Christophe Dubois wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > The input field for the "Standby timeout" is not very user friendly. Its
> > value varies from 0 to 255 without any hint of what means each value.
> >
> > So I propose to replace this simple field with a javascript based slider
> > that will describe in full word what the timeout value really is. It is
> > easier to have a timeout value of "5 minutes" rather than the corresponding
> > 60 field value.
> >
> > So I Incorporated the work of Erik Arvidsson at
> > http://webfx.eae.net/dhtml/slider/slider.html. His code is under "Apache
> > License, Version 2.0" so I assume there should be no problem to incorporate
> > it in webmin.
> 
> To give you an idea, I attached a snapshot of the webmin frame to this email. 
> Let me know what you think of it.

Hi Jean,

That certainly looks impressive. My only concern would be how this will degrade
when accessed on a browser that doesn't support the Javascript needed to render
that slider.. Ideally it should fall back to showing the old text field.

Do you know if that is possible?

 - Jamie