History page discussion

[hannaeko]

We have a few issues (and one PR) talking about the history.

So far the complaints are

• the history modal is not closed we selecting a test,
• but what if we want to jump from test to test quickly (Close the "history" modal after choosing one entry #242),
• the history modal is not refreshed when a new test is created ("History" tab does not refresh when doing consecutive tests #412),
• we can't query the history without first accessing a test result (Make it possible to look for a domain history without running a test #333).

I suggest we take the approach of having a "History" page, that the result page can link to. On this page we could have the list of previous tests, and when we click on one, we have the test result show below the list. This way we avoid the modal issue (screen reader user are informed that a new test result has been loaded using a live region), have a dedicated page to lookup a domain history, the result page and history page being two different page we avoid the refresh issue.

What do you think?

[matsduf]

I think it sounds fine.

[tgreenx]

Same, sounds good to me.

I could see a heat map in such an History page, it is usually visually helpful.

[mattias-p]

I agree. I like the idea of having a proper history page.