Re: [Koha] Problem with MARC tag structure admin (and others)
Scott, The browser was the problem, and because of that I couldn't see all of the fields to set the tabs. Using Mozilla worked and then I was able to set up the MARC tab structure the way I wanted. Now, I want to load my biblio data. I have it set up in MARC21 format and am ready to use the bulkmarcimport.pl script to load it. I've already tried it on a few records on the sample database and it works. But... I want to load it into the "blank200" db and checking in that db, there is no MARC tag data. Is there a quick and safe way to import the data from the sample200 db? One that will make sure the indexes and links are kept intact? And, BTW, should the IE browser incompatibility be noted as a bug? Dana Huff
On 2004-09-02 20:05:55 +0100 Dana Huff <rd294121@hotmail.com> wrote:
And, BTW, should the IE browser incompatibility be noted as a bug?
If the javascript is fine, I guess you should ask Microsoft. If the javascript is buggy, then it probably should be reported as a bug. I don't really speak javascript well enough to tell whose bug it is. The use of javascript for critical functions in general is already reported as bug 782 http://bugs.koha.org/cgi-bin/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=782 -- MJR/slef My Opinion Only and not of any group I know http://www.ttllp.co.uk/ for creative copyleft computing Please email about: BT alternative for line rental+DSL; Education on SMEs+EU FP6; office filing that works fast
Dana Huff said:
And, BTW, should the IE browser incompatibility be noted as a bug?
Ooh, ooh, ooh, let me say it first! -- "That's a feature, not a bug." Seriously, I'm not an expert on browsers, but I do know some, and I'm told that IE operates so differently from "normal" browsers that you'd pretty much have to write the code to work on IE (and nothing else) or on everything else (and not IE). Too bad we're forced into making such choices... Stephen -- Stephen Hedges Skemotah Solutions, USA www.skemotah.com -- shedges@skemotah.com
* Stephen Hedges <shedges@skemotah.com> wrote:
Dana Huff said:
And, BTW, should the IE browser incompatibility be noted as a bug?
Seriously, I'm not an expert on browsers, but I do know some, and I'm told that IE operates so differently from "normal" browsers that you'd pretty much have to write the code to work on IE (and nothing else) or on everything else (and not IE). Too bad we're forced into making such choices...
That's not entirely true. IE is one hell of a nasty browser, but making relatively simple things work in it isn't very difficult. Most of the javascript I've seen in Koha seems to merely show and hide page elements, which can be done in many different ways. Some of those ways work on IE, and some don't. However, I haven't looked in depth at Koha's web tricks, so I may be missing something important. In the worst case, each page could detect which browser is viewing it, and send different scripts accordingly. This would be cumbersome to the development process (must write things twice), but might be worthwhile. Supposedly about half of the population still uses IE even though it barely even resembles what the W3C would call a compliant browser. Or, Koha could simply inform users not to use IE. For a while, I had a specially-crafted PNG image on my site which, when viewed with IE (but no other browsers), displayed "IF YOU CAN READ THIS, YOUR BROWSER SUCKS". -- Scott
Stephen, You know, I almost asked the question that way, tongue-in-cheek. But even though I worked at Microsoft/Redmond for a number of years, I really like the Mozilla browser. I try to stay away from "religious" issues like which browser is best but you have to face the realities of life - 90% of the computers in the world use IE. I maintain a couple of web sites and have to keep browser compatibility in mind whenever I add a "feature" to a page to make it a bit more exciting or friendly. And the issue I'm talking about on that particular Koha page, the function of a button, is not rocket science. I don't know Perl that well, I'm just getting my feet wet on this project, but I do feel comfortable with CSS, PHP, JavaScript, ASP and HTML and there is usually a way to make a page at least presentable (not broken) on any (or 99%) of the browsers out there. Okay, I got that off my chest. How do I report this as a bug? And, refering back to my last email, shouldn't the blank200 database in the Win32 2.0 distribution have the MARC data tables filled? Thank you for bearing with me, Dana ----- Original Message ----- From: Stephen Hedges To: Dana Huff Cc: koha@lists.katipo.co.nz Sent: Friday, 03 September 2004 2:08 AM Subject: Re: [Koha] Problem with MARC tag structure admin (and others) Dana Huff said:
And, BTW, should the IE browser incompatibility be noted as a bug?
Ooh, ooh, ooh, let me say it first! -- "That's a feature, not a bug." Seriously, I'm not an expert on browsers, but I do know some, and I'm told that IE operates so differently from "normal" browsers that you'd pretty much have to write the code to work on IE (and nothing else) or on everything else (and not IE). Too bad we're forced into making such choices... Stephen -- Stephen Hedges Skemotah Solutions, USA www.skemotah.com -- shedges@skemotah.com
Dana Huff said:
Okay, I got that off my chest. How do I report this as a bug?
Easy enough: http://bugs.koha.org And you'll probably want to glance at the bug MJ mentioned: http://bugs.koha.org/cgi-bin/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=782 Stephen -- Stephen Hedges Skemotah Solutions, USA www.skemotah.com -- shedges@skemotah.com
On 2004-09-03 06:05:59 +0100 Dana Huff <rd294121@hotmail.com> wrote:
[...] but you have to face the realities of life - 90% of the computers in the world use IE. [...]
You have to face the realities of life - you have no way of determining browser shares accurately from current data (forging is rampant), so we should be agnostic, which is what your message correctly argued for. Of course, I think that we should follow WCAG and not rely on Javascript, but I need some 30-hour days to put it right.
Okay, I got that off my chest. How do I report this as a bug?
http://bugs.koha.org/ but check it's not already there.
And, refering back to my last email, shouldn't the blank200 database in the Win32 2.0 distribution have the MARC data tables filled?
Seems unlikely, as both MARC21 and UNIMARC seem common, but you'll have to ask the win32 maintainers to be sure. I think they still live on koha-win32@lists.sourceforge.net but I could be wrong. -- MJR/slef My Opinion Only and not of any group I know http://www.ttllp.co.uk/ for creative copyleft computing Please email about: BT alternative for line rental+DSL; Education on SMEs+EU FP6; office filing that works fast
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