bzrweb with logarithmic pagination

[Chris McCormick]

On Fri, Jul 08, 2005 at 07:38:18PM +0800, bazaar-ng-request at lists.canonical.com wrote:
> Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2005 14:41:01 +0800
> From: Chris McCormick <chris at mccormick.cx>
> Subject: bzrweb with logarithmic pagination
> To: bazaar-ng at lists.canonical.com
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> > Mercurial uses a very nice kind of log scale for its web interface;
> > maybe we could adopt that.
> > 
> >   http://www.selenic.com/hg
> 
> I've considered a log based pagination system in the past and completely
> forgot about the idea. This is a really cool idea - I'll have a look
> at trying to do it in an intuitive manner when looking at bzrweb this
> afternoon.

I've implemented this, and it may well be the least intuitive pagination
style in the history of man (but I'm not sure having looked at it for
too long).

That search box on Mercurial is a great idea. That must certainly be
implemented.

Best,

Chris.

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