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Issue 36: error margin auto detection
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Status:  New
Owner:  ----
Type-Enhancement
Priority-Medium
Component-Logic
Usability
WatchType-Web


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Reported by nekohayo, Jan 05, 2007
It would be nice if error margins were automatically handled by specto, if
the user requests so.

To do that, the user would click an "autodetect" button, which would
display a "please wait, analyzing" dialog. Meanwhile, Specto would load the
page 3-5 times and determine the average/maximum % variation (because of
ads on a webpage for example) and determine the error margin from that.
Comment 1 by nekohayo, Jan 07, 2007
"where would you add the button? when you add the watch or when you edit the watch?
- both I guess, since in both cases you can set the error margin, it's just a button
that would go besides it
- the problem is that you have to create the watch to be able to get the error margin
and when you add a watch, the watch isn't created yet. Maybe you will have to create
a ghost watch or something that you remove when you know the error_margin
- I think that may be too acrobatic/dangerous, might as well just have the feature
for Edit watch
- or maybe an option in the menu. it opens a dialog where you select the web watches
where you want automatic error margin detection
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