gorhill
Addressing inconsistencies in the dynamic rule matrix
Following up on https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/issues/527#issuecomment-124918048, I threw together a quick/very dirty demonstration for gorhill to play with. For now I ignored the image type rule as I don't think it's as important in the context of the matrix.
Adding a yellow indicator for cells that have conflicting dynamic rules (e.g. 3p block & 3p-scripts allow) applied to them in the filtering matrix would resolve most inconsistencies and the confusion they cause.
The yellow indicator is already used for hosts that have some requests allowed and some denied in the first column of the matrix, so it would be intuitive to apply that to (at least parts of) the third column.
The commit is here: https://github.com/seanrand/uBlock/commit/8eefa9f64a00e8431e20dc07304efe149b20c82a (only tested in Chromium 48.0.2539.0, by the way)
Thoughts?
P.S., sorry for not following contributing.md but I hope the comment and commit is enough to get my point across as to why I think this would be an improvement.
Thoughts?
There is an ambiguity, however I have many reservations about how to solve this, and even whether this needs "solving" at all. I will elaborate when I get time.
No worries, I realise this isn't a high priority "bug" and could be considered a non-issue/not worth the effort if you assume the user reads/understands the wiki on dynamic filtering. Nonetheless, I think the yellow mixed indicator would clear things up a bit, but maybe I'm missing some corner cases. I didn't find any discussion on this other than you acknowledging that some cases currently can't be/aren't represented accurately in the matrix, which is why I opened this issue.
I often come back to this one to come up with a visual, eventually I will make a decision. I didn't want yellowish because it implies a mix of block and allow rules, which is not the case, it's a block rule partially affecting the cell.