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phillup (4419)
Friday April 01, 2005
03:21 PM
It's so good, we use it ourselves
I saw an entry in FreshMeat that sounded interesting. When I went to the home page for the software I saw two statements that were a bit interesting to me:
A GPL'd drop down menu that is so good that even we use it.
and
It's about time that someone released an open source drop down menu that actually works!
Why did I find them interesting? Well... the drop down menus on the site don't work for me. That's why.
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Its so bad, we use it ourselves! (Score:2)
So I dutifully tried to submit a bug report via their "contact us" page. I guess this is using their FORMFields interface. To start, the form to write the message in is, for some reason, 52 x 11. Not only is it tiny, its not even a size that makes sense.
To make matters worse they limit you to 500 characters. There's a helpful little c