Jimmy (Jimbo) Wales wrote:
Can someone explain to me the purpose of the "Compare selected versions" Javascript? It makes no sense to me, and it really slows down the page for me. When I try to compare two versions, I have to wait a long time for the page to change to reflect my selections.
Well, I don't know why it would be slow for you (it's fine for me), but I do agree that the whole making radio buttons appear and disappear is probably quite superfluous.
We used to have a system where we had just a row of checkboxes, and as soon as you had clicked two, it would load the diff, without requiring you to click a button. I wonder why we didn't keep that? I preferred that. Then again, it is conceivable that it might not have worked in older browsers, or some people might have thought it was unintuitive?
I can't think of any better methods. The only other possibilities I see are pretty rubbish.
Timwi