[Mailman-Users] What would your dream Mailman web interface look like?

[Andrew Stuart]

Sounds like not working with JavaScript is something important to you.  What’s the thinking behind wanting to work without JavaScript?  Isn’t it kinda hard to navigate the modern web without JavaScript?

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On 7 Apr 2015, at 9:48 am, J.B. Nicholson-Owens <jbn at forestfield.org> wrote:

Andrew Stuart wrote:
> Any killer features that you’d like to see in the perfect Mailman web
> interface?

Thanks for asking.

Such an interface would work completely without running any Javascript to do anything the interface can do. If Javascript is turned off in the browser, the interface should work completely. If Javascript is turned on in the browser, the Javascript should be free software and clearly labeled as free Javascript so the LibreJS add-on will recognize it and let the user run it. But no Javascript would be required to use the Mailman interface at all. I see no reason why anyone's Mailman task should require Javascript.

The perfect Mailman web interface would do what it needs to do with links, form submissions, and CSS but work fully with text-only browsers like lynx, links, and so on.

Disabled persons access is, of course, something a perfect interface would offer. I am sure others can point you to the relevant standards/linters to implement and validate this.

Also, the perfect Mailman web interface would let admins use gratis, auto-renewing[1] TLS certificates such as what letsencrypt.org is proposing to do[2]. Until we can get away from the current ridiculousness to publish encrypted websites, letsencrypt.org is the most promising practical means I know of to increase the number of encrypted websites. A Mailman web interface should offer a 1-click means of acquiring a letsencrypt.org certificate that automatically renews itself until the admin clicks the button again to stop using that letsencrypt.org certificate. And it should be trivially easy to make all visits to the site use encryption.

The defaults for this web interface are critical because they will be what most installations will offer (I believe most users of most programs don't change or investigate defaults).



[1] I know this automation requires the interface's back-end to do the renewing using letsencrypt.org API, but from the admin's perspective this is automatic certificate renewing.

[2] Obviously I don't know the details of letsencrypt.org's setup because they've not yet begun production use of their service.
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