On Tue, 17 Mar 2009 20:34:12 +0100
Daniel Schüssler
Hi,
Even worse, the buttons for moving items up and down are buggy - at least on my browser (Firefox 3.1 beta 2 on Linux). They sometimes reorder my other votes! Even assuming that the list box code is not buggy (which I now doubt), not being able to use the buttons makes this form almost unusable!
I guess it works like this:
"Move down" on an element X will make the /smallest/ change (with respect to the abstract ordering) that makes X worse than it's current value. This may require changing more than one number, for example if we have:
(105: ) (106: A) (107: X,B) (108: C,D) (109: E ) (110: )
moving down X will result in either
(105: A) (106: B) (107: X ) (108: C,D) (109: D ) (110: )
or equivalently
(105: ) (106: A) (107: B ) (108: X ) (109: C,D) (110: D)
of course, maybe you already know that but you're saying that it is doing this wrongly ;)
Yes, I am saying that. To be more specific: I saw the current Haskell logo get put back in the top position even though I had pushed it down, and I saw three of my choices which I ranked quite highly, pushed down to the bottom. Scarily bad. However, I am now hacking together a quick-and-dirty utility for ranking things which I will put on hackage. I'm not sure that anyone other than myself will use it, but it's fun hacking it up. -- Robin