[Phpmyadmin-devel] Is vertical mode useful?

Rouslan Placella rouslan at placella.com
Tue Jun 21 15:46:32 CEST 2011


On Tue, 2011-06-21 at 19:04 +0530, Madhura Jayaratne wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 6:58 PM, Isaac Bennetch <bennetch at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > On 6/21/2011 9:16 AM, Marc Delisle wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I know that vertical mode has been available for ages in phpMyAdmin but
> > > I'm wondering if it's useful.
> > >
> > > Maybe this could be asked in the user survey but I would like opinions
> > > from this list, soon.
> > >
> > > The reason is that supporting this mode for all new features increases
> > > code complexity; I am in favor of removing this feature.
> >
> > For what it's worth, I've never used it, have never spoken to anyone who
> > mentioned using it (certainly no one in IRC has sought help with it to
> > my recollection), and a quick search on Google doesn't find any
> > interesting results about switching to vertical mode (mostly
> > documentation and developer notes).
> >
> > Can't agree more.
> I feel that it's not worth maintaining the functionality, considering the
> complexity it adds to the code.
> I am also in favor of removing it.
> 

+1. The only time I used it was when implementing a feature request.

Rouslan





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