IMHO the best solution would be to completely remove this checkbox on
forms that require registration. Other than the fact that people have
already agreed with these terms when registering (although I guess these
terms might have changed since then) and that approximately 0% of the
population will read the conditions every time they agree with them,
there's the fact that these links are inside a label and people might
accidentally click on them while trying to click on the label in order
to check the checkbox.
I guess the idea is that these conditions might have changed since the
moment people registered. In a fair world, checking "I agree" would have
no legal meaning because it's unreasonable to expect that people will
read these conditions every time they fill in a form, so whatever we're
trying to do here would be pointless.
But, since I'm not sure about the legal implications of removing this
field in a world where you have to inform people that websites requiring
identification use cookies, for now the field will stay where it is.
In some places, we were using `blank` instead of `_blank`. Most browsers
treat `blank` like `_blank`, though, so most people didn't experience
any difference.
In another place, we were incorrectly passing the `target` option inside
an `options:` hash, resulting in invalid HTML.
Quoting usability experts Jakob Nielsen and Anna Kaley [1]:
> [Opening PDF files in new tabs] is problematic, because it assumes
> users will always do the exact same things with certain file formats,
> which isn’t always the case.
There are many examples of this situation. For example, some people
(myself included) configure their browser so it downloads PDF files
instead of opening them in the browser. In this situation, a new tab is
opened, a blank page is displayed, the file is downloaded, and then
either the tab is closed or the blank page needs to be manually closed.
The end result is really annoying.
Other situations include people who use a mobile phone browser, where
navigating through tabs is generally much harder than doing so on a
desktop browser.
But IMHO the most important point is: every browser already provides a
way to open "regular" links in a new tab, so people can choose what to
do, but if we decide to open the link in a new tab, we take control away
from them, and people who'd like to open the link in the same tab might
feel frustrated.
In these cases, the links either say "download" or include the word
"PDF", so people know in advance that they're going to download/open a
PDF file, and so we're giving them information and, by removing the
`target` attribute, we're giving them control over their browser so they
can choose what's convenient for them.
[1] https://www.nngroup.com/articles/new-browser-windows-and-tabs
We were displaying documents in five places, and in five different ways.
Sometimes with the metadata in parenthesis after the title, sometimes
with the metadata below the title, sometimes without metadata, sometimes
with an icon in front of the document, and sometimes with a separate
link to download the file.
So we're now displaying the same thing everywhere. Not sure whether this
is the best solution, but at least it's consistent.
We aren't unifying the way we display a list of documents, though, since
different sections look pretty different and I'm not sure whether the
same style would look well everywhere.
Note that we're renaming the `document` HTML class in the documents
table to `document-row` so the styles for the `document` class don't
apply here.
This way it'll be easier to change them.
Note that there were two `.document-link` elements which aren't part of
a `.documents` element. We're renaming the HTML class of the link in
investments because it didn't contain links to download documents and
are slightly duplicating the CSS in the poll answer documents in order
to keep the `word-wrap` property.
We were adding <div> tags with the `images` or `documents` HTML class
prettly much every time we rendered a NestedComponent. We're now
including the HTML class inside the component, as we usually do.
We're also rendering the nested components directly, since it's been a
while since the partials were changed to simply render the components.
We aren't using <hr> tags on any forms containing fields to add/edit
documents, so using this in the dashboard actions form and the
legislation process form was inconsistent.
We were using a "Download file" link in one place, while in another
place we had an additional column where the name of the document was a
link to download it.
In order to comply with the security measure for the
ENS: "[op.acc.5.r5.2] The user shall be informed of
the last access made with his identity".
We have added a new secret to display the last
access made to the user on the "My account" page.
This way we make it easier to modify.
Note that, since the title of the page is "Administration" and it's in
the "Admin" section, we're adding an option to the `header` method in
order to avoid having a confusing title like "Administration - Admin".
Also note that, by removing the `title` HTML class, we avoid inheriting
styles from the `dashboard.scss` stylesheet, and now the heading is
displayed in the position it was meant to.
Finally, the concept of using a `main-class` for the current page comes
from a branch (currently in development) which will replace the <div>
tag with the `admin-content` class with a `main` tag.
The outline was invisible when we had the link containing block
elements, and I didn't manage to fix it, so the easiest solution is to
use an inline link and style the card with CSS.
This way it's going to be easier to style the link on focus, since
styles like `box-shadow` weren't working properly when we had an inline
link with block elements inside, and adding the `display: inline-block`
element to the link didn't play well with the layout we were using for
the recommendations.
We're also fixing the focus outline on recommendations, which didn't
look properly because of the border added with:
```
.recommended-index {
// (...)
@include full-width-border(top, 1px solid #fafafa);
}
```
The border was on top of the outline, breaking it. Increasing the
`z-index` of the element containing the outline solves the issue.
In a similar way, we're making sure the button to hide recommendations
stays visible so it's easier to click it.
As far as possible I think the code is clearer if we use CRUD actions
rather than custom actions. This will make it easier to add the action
to remove votes in the next commit.
Note that we are adding this line as we need to validate it that a vote
can be created on a comment by the current user:
```authorize! :create, Vote.new(voter: current_user, votable: @comment)```
We have done it this way and not with the following code as you might
expect, as this way two votes are created instead of one.
```load_and_authorize_resource through: :comment, through_association: :votes_for```
This line tries to load the resource @comment and through the association
"votes_for" it tries to create a new vote associated to that debate.
Therefore a vote is created when trying to authorise the resource and
then another one in the create action, when calling @comment.vote.
As far as possible I think the code is clearer if we use CRUD actions
rather than custom actions. This will make it easier to add the action
to remove votes in the next commit.
Note that we are adding this line as we need to validate it that a vote
can be created on a debate by the current user:
```authorize! :create, Vote.new(voter: current_user, votable: @debate)```
We have done it this way and not with the following code as you might
expect, as this way two votes are created instead of one.
```load_and_authorize_resource through: :debate, through_association: :votes_for```
This line tries to load the resource @debate and through the association
"votes_for" it tries to create a new vote associated to that debate.
Therefore a vote is created when trying to authorise the resource and
then another one in the create action, when calling @debate.vote_by (which
is called by @debate.register_vote).
In this commit, we have performed a refactoring to enhance code organization.
Several partials that were solely responsible for rendering components have been removed.
Instead, we are now directly rendering the components within the views where these
partials were previously used.
Internet Explorer 8 was released in 2009 and people using it already
know that most web pages look broken on it, so we don't need to warn
them.
Removing it makes our application layout file much easier to read and
modify.
Note we're excluding a few files:
* Configuration files that weren't generated by us
* Migration files that weren't generated by us
* The Gemfile, since it includes an important comment that must be on
the same line as the gem declaration
* The Budget::Stats class, since the heading statistics are a mess and
having shorter lines would require a lot of refactoring
For the HashAlignment rule, we're using the default `key` style (keys
are aligned and values aren't) instead of the `table` style (both keys
and values are aligned) because, even if we used both in the
application, we used the `key` style a lot more. Furthermore, the
`table` style looks strange in places where there are both very long and
very short keys and sometimes we weren't even consistent with the
`table` style, aligning some keys without aligning other keys.
Ideally we could align hashes to "either key or table", so developers
can decide whether keeping the symmetry of the code is worth it in a
case-per-case basis, but Rubocop doesn't allow this option.
Since IRB has improved its support for multiline, the main argument
towars using a trailing dot no longer affects most people.
It still affects me, though, since I use Pry :), but I agree
leading dots are more readable, so I'm enabling the rule anyway.
We added the `user_id` rule in commit edaf420f5. To be honest, I'm not
sure what we meant, since I haven't found URLs containing the user id.
So we're treating it as if it was a typo and we wanted to do the same
thing we did with other parameters.
Just like we did for budgets, we're doing the same thing in all the
places where we render background images attached by either regular
users or administrators.
This way we correctly render background images with characters like
brackets or quotes.
In these commits 38ba5e159b and 8805037e2f we added the parameter
"vote_url" in the call to the partial "votes" in collaborative legislation
proposals.
It seems that this parameter is only used in the proposals module and not in
collaborative legislation proposals.
While it is true that in the partial "votes" in these commits this parameter
"vote_url" is referred to, in commit 276baedcf it seems to be removed.
For this reason, we remove the parameter.
Previous to this commit the geozone link shown in the
legislation proposal page was pointing to the proposals
process feature instead to the legislation proposals.
