Massive Konqueror Regression
Rudo Thomas
rudo at matfyz.cz
Sun Aug 14 15:55:46 CEST 2005
> the source to the pages themselves usually isn't the best thing for the
> developers anyways. what is best is a reduced, simplified bit of example
> HTML/Javascript/CSS/whatever that shows the problem succinctly and directly.
> this usually means save the page locally and then removing all the bits that
> aren't related to the problem until you have a generic test case. this
> sometimes takes a while because it requires hunting for what it triggering
> the problem.
>
> this is very valuable to the developers because it saves them from doing this
> and allows them to quickly see what the problem is exactly and then go about
> fixing it quickly.
I am sorry to say that my exprerience has been different.
http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=74569
There is a simple test case, as well as a full back-trace. The bug is
still present in the latest version of konqueror, though :-(
This is not to say that providing simple test cases is pointless, it is
just the lone case when I actually submitted this kind of bug report.
Bye.
Rudo.
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