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IDProjectCategoryView StatusDate SubmittedLast Update
0003167mantisbtbugtrackerpublic2003-05-05 09:392009-07-23 04:56
Reporterstagomantis Assigned Tograngeway  
PrioritynormalSeverityminorReproducibilityalways
Status closedResolutionno change required 
Summary0003167: One-digit redirect delay can be too short
Description

If a delay is used (allowed) at all, the intention must be give the user time to read what's on the page (often a success message or an error message - and for the latter one needs more time).

The problem is that different browsers treat the delay in a meta redirect differently: MSIE starts the delay counter after the the page has fully loaded (images an an all); but Mozilla and relatives start countng from when the page starts loading.

This implies that when the user is using a browser that behaves like Mozilla, the delay should be sufficient for both page loading and reading; a maximum of 9 seconds can easily be too short, especially is the user is also on a slow connection. The database field (and corresponding form field) should be expanded to allow 2 digits.

Additional Information

BTW, I didn't see a category "usability" - that's where I would have classified this.

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redjen

redjen

2007-07-31 12:19

reporter   ~0015307

I'm going through some of the older issues. It appears that this issue is resolved in the current version--the delay can be set to a much larger value. Please let me know if you disagree.
stagomantis

stagomantis

2007-08-19 11:12

reporter   ~0015456

redjen, that sounds fine to me!
grangeway

grangeway

2008-05-02 16:19

reporter   ~0017733

Thank you for taking the time to report a problem with mantis.

Since this problem report was originally made, a number of releases have occurred.
It appears that this issue has either been fixed, or may not be a relevant report for the current release.

Unfortunately you are not using the latest version and the problem might already be fixed. Please download the latest release from http://www.mantisbt.org/download.php

If you are able to reproduce this bug in the current release, or have some more information on how this feature could be improved in the current release. Please either change the mantis version on this bug report
to the version you tested and change the status back to "Open", or open a new issue report wit more information.

Again, thank you for your bug report and your continued support.
Paul