{"id":40,"date":"2006-03-29T00:17:39","date_gmt":"2006-03-29T04:17:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.screwedbydesign.com\/blineapples\/?p=41"},"modified":"2006-03-29T00:17:39","modified_gmt":"2006-03-29T04:17:39","slug":"and_you_thought_bugzilla_was_b_1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/screwedbydesign.com\/blog\/2006\/03\/and_you_thought_bugzilla_was_b_1.php","title":{"rendered":"And You Thought Bugzilla was Bad?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/ie\/archive\/2006\/03\/24\/560095.aspx\">Microsoft announced<\/a> the opening of their new IE public feedback\/bug database this week and I must say it makes our copy of <a href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\">Bugzilla<\/a> look like a sexy, Web 2.0, AJAX-ified beast.<\/p>\n<p>For starters, a Passport account is <em>required<\/em> to even get close to seeing the thing. Once you&#8217;ve completed that registration process, you should be able to view and submit feedback now, right? Wrong. Next you&#8217;re required to sign in to Microsoft Connect and specify that you want to enroll in the IE Feedback program. <em>Now<\/em> (after ignoring the invalid SSL cert dialog) you can at least view and submit feedback. Of course in order to submit, you must search prior to being offered a link to submit a report. Once through the initial search for a bug or after submitting one, you&#8217;ll be presented with a screen fairly devoid of what you&#8217;d really expect to see along with a bug report &#8211; it&#8217;s current status and a specific reason why that status was decided upon, all without having to dig through various other links.<\/p>\n<p>Now of course it wouldn&#8217;t be fair to discuss how awful MS&#8217; system is without discussing Mozilla&#8217;s Bugzilla. Which has a <a href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/query.cgi?format=advanced\">few<\/a> usability faux pas of its own and can be pretty intimidating for the first-time user. But after a few months and a thousand or so triaged bugs later, I must say that it at least gets the job done without making you jump through an ungodly number of hoops.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft announced the opening of their new IE public feedback\/bug database this week and I must say it makes our copy of Bugzilla look like a sexy, Web 2.0, AJAX-ified beast. For starters, a Passport account is required to even get close to seeing the thing. Once you&#8217;ve completed that registration process, you should be &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/screwedbydesign.com\/blog\/2006\/03\/and_you_thought_bugzilla_was_b_1.php\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">And You Thought Bugzilla was Bad?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/screwedbydesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/screwedbydesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/screwedbydesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/screwedbydesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/screwedbydesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/screwedbydesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/screwedbydesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/screwedbydesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/screwedbydesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}