Fwd: unicorn feedback

[Thanks for the feedback Patrick. I'm forwarding it to the unicorn- 
specific mailing-list]

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> Resent-From: public-qa-dev@w3.org
> From: "Patrick H. Lauke" <redux@splintered.co.uk>
> Date: October 10, 2006 05:23:52 JST
> To: public-qa-dev@w3.org
> Cc: WaSP ATF <AccessibilityTF@webstandards.org>
> Subject: unicorn feedback
>
> purely on the first screen of http://qa-dev.w3.org/unicorn/
>
> - those form elements could do with some actual label elements to  
> go with them
> - could the application assume http:// when an address was simply  
> entered without a particular protocol?
> - why exactly is javascript a requirement to validate documents? is  
> it not just a requirement for the proper operation of this initial  
> page, and even there could it not be implemented in a graceful way  
> so that, without javascript, everything is still perfectly  
> functioning?
>
>
> After submission with an error (e.g. omitting "http://" for  
> instance), you have "Below is a stack trace from Unicorn to help  
> solving the problem". Who does this help, exactly? The users or the  
> developers? As I suspect it's the latter, is it truly necessary to  
> show the stack trace, rather than a friendly "you forgot to put a  
> protocol in...", ideally with a copy of the previously submitted  
> form, already populated with what the user originally entered?
>
> And, probably a feature that's already in the works: needs to have  
> an option to actually show the source code, or at least show the  
> particular line that throws errors.
>
> Apart from that, it's looking very handy.
>
> Patrick
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