Most browsers apply the focus style when a link is
clicked but Safari just applies the active style.
This meant our large links, with expanded click
areas, didn't get the focus style themselves but
their psuedo-elements (which create the expanded
click area) did.
This adds the focus styles to the active state of
links with the expanded click area, to ensure all
of their click area gets the focus style.
At present the file-list pattern assumes each
item has hint text below the link and so increases
the hit area to overlap the hint. This adds a
variant for items without one and uses it on the
page for choosing an alert sub-area.
We added domdiff to replace the DiffDOM library
here:
87f54d1e88
DiffDOM had updated its code to be written to the
ECMAScript 6 (ES6) standard and so needed extra
work to work with the older browsers in our
support matrix. This was recorded as an issue
here:
https://www.pivotaltracker.com/n/projects/1443052/stories/165380360
Domdiff didn't work (see below for more details)
so this replaces it with the morphdom library.
Morphdom supports the same browsers as us and is
relied on by a range of large open source
projects:
https://github.com/patrick-steele-idem/morphdom#what-projects-are-using-morphdom
It was tricky to find alternatives to DiffDOM so
if we have to source alternatives in future, other
options could be:
- https://github.com/choojs/nanomorph
- https://diffhtml.org/index.html (using its
outerHTML method)
Why domdiff didn't work
Turns out that domdiff was replacing the page HTML
with the HTML from the AJAX response every time,
not just when they differed. This isn't a bug.
Domdiff is bare bones enough that it compares old
DOM nodes to new DOM nodes with ===. With our
code, this always results to false because our new
nodes are made from HTML strings from AJAX
response so are never the same node as the old
one.
Having this as a function which does string parsing and manipulation
surprised me a bit when I was trying to figure out why something wasn’t
working.
It’s more in line with the way we do other config like this (for example
`ASSET_PATH`) to make it a simple config variable, rather than trying to
be clever and guess things based on other config variables.
It’s also less code, and is explicit enough that it doesn’t need tests.
Following a team cuddle where we checked how different people
interpret the billing report. We found that some things about
the report are ambiguous and that it would be helpful to have
some guidance on the page where the report can be downloaded,
As with the last update, the work prepping the
interface that will be used for emergency alerts
for its accessibility audit took priority and has
taken longer than expected. Because of this, we
haven't had time to work on the issues listed
here.
This updates the planned timings to reflect what
we now believe will be possible with the work left
on emergency alerts and amount of work required to
fix them.
we previously pinned cryptography to versions less than 3.4 since after
that point, cryptography started using rust as a dependency. This isn't
an issue if you install from wheel, but we found that the version of pip
bundled with the python buildpack was too old to support this. However,
since upgrading from python 3.6 to python 3.9, the pip version has been
bumped and we now no longer need to pin cryptography as it installs
correctly.
This field caused some confusion and lots of unnecessary work
to our colleague because of unclear name.
The field was named sms_fragments, where in fact the value of
the field is: those sms fragments that go above free allowance
multiplied by the rate multiplier.
The new name was chosen through consultation with colleagues
who use billing report the most.
This was a minor issue in a recent incident [1].
We don't want people emailing us directly:
- It's harder to collaborate on replies than in Zendesk, where I
can see who's editing.
- We can't take advantage of macros like we can in Zendesk.
- People emailing us directly creates an unnecessary distraction
and it's easy to lose track. We want to minimise distractions in
an incident situation.
- We use notify-support@ for monitoring, so we don't want noise.
[1]: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1eArpcYoCmhlgB45FZpGj1_HnkAgpgtgwr-KBiUq7h8c/edit#
for a job to be finished there are two requirements:
* the status to be "finished"
* the percentage complete to be 100%
The job status is set to finished when the process_job task finishes
(even though not all process_row may have finished). The
percentage_complete is calculated by comparing the number of
notifications in the database with the number of rows in the
spreadsheet.
This was inadvertently changed from an "and" to an "or" clause two years
ago. This meant that people could download a report when the status was
finished but not all notifications were present in the database. Lets
change it back.
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