[MAPREDUCE-2674] MR-279: JobHistory Server should not use tables for layout

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 0.23.0
• Component/s: mrv2
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Robert Joseph Evans
• Created: 12/Jul/11 16:07
• Updated: 12/Jul/11 16:07

Description

The Job History Server web pages use table tags for the layout of the various elements on the page. This is not a very maintainable way of laying out a web page. The ideal is to let CSS do all of the layout and have the document itself just have data in it. This is especially important because there are currently no APIs to pull some of this data out, and as such there are tools, that scrape these pages. If we can separate out the layout then even when the layout changes the scrapers will not be impacted.

This should probably be investigated in the rest of the UI too.