Opened 10 years ago
Closed 10 years ago
#328 closed enhancement (fixed)
View button in metadata pane should show snapshot first before using URL
| Reported by: | dstillman | Owned by: | dstillman |
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| Priority: | major | Milestone: | 1.0.0 |
| Component: | interface | Version: | 1.0 |
| Keywords: | Cc: | dcohen |
Description
Change History (2)
comment:1 Changed 10 years ago by dstillman
- Cc dcohen added
- Milestone changed from 1.0 Beta 2 to 1.0 Final
- Summary changed from View button should show latest snapshot first before using URL to View button in metadata pane should show snapshot first before using URL
comment:2 Changed 10 years ago by dstillman
- Resolution set to fixed
- Status changed from new to closed
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I'm not convinced this is even the desired behavior -- giving the user a more useful View button would be nice, but this would require a bit more hidden logic than might be reasonable. We don't really have any way of knowing if it's what the user actually wants, and they probably wouldn't have any idea what to expect when they hit it. Many probably wouldn't even look in the URL bar to see if they got a snapshot or a URL, so they might be looking at an outdated page without even realizing it.
On the other hand, with something like the NYT scraper, which will generally have a URL and a snapshot, it'd be pretty silly to always send them to the archive URL.
I guess one option would be to only use snapshots if there's one that matches the URL stored in the parent item... And we'd probably want to give some indication of what to expect when they clicked the button, either by changing the label or adding in the snapshot button or something...
Depends on #329, at any rate