Thomas Klausner wrote:
Hi!
On Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 01:32:37AM +0800, Stas Bekman wrote:
I disagree to drop the UP link (may be it should be called differently? "parent"?). This is why:
The breadcrumb is useful for: - global navigation - knowing where you are.
A quick go to the parent link is very helpful to be in the vicinity of its children. You have to scroll up for breadcrumb, what if you are located at the bottom of a very long page? I think this last reason is the most important.
That's true. I did't thought about that.
What I don't like about "UP" is that prev and next aren't labeled "prev" and "next" but with the titles of the corresponding documents. So you have a mixture of lables (named ones and generic) which is sort of iritating. What about using the name of the "UP" document in the widget? Or using literally "prev | up | next" (although I like the idea of knowing what "next" will be)
That's easy to do. But the problem that it takes a lot of space (e.g. 'mod_perl developer's guide', so the 3 cells won't fit into one line almost for sure (they are not always fitting anyway, but it's nice when they are). May be we should replace Up with some other symbolic meaning?
'Contents'? But then it can be confused with TOC. 'Parent'? 'Level Up'?
"prev" and "next" aren't as nice, especially since we have the knowledge of the real names.
I suggest replacing 'Up' with an icon. So we have 3 cells with 3 icons: <|^|>, but in addition, cells 1 and 3 have the titles.
So may be we should drop the idea having two items in the same nav widget contrasting each other? And just have something like:I don't get you here ...
------------------------ [ < Prev | UP | Next > ] ------------------------
We always have 2 or 3 elements so we don't really have to use the technique used when you have many rows or columns.
When you present many rows or columns:
foo bar foo bar bar foo bar foo foo foo foo foo
usually alternate rows (or cols) are coloured into a different color. I was saying that we don't have to do that, because we have only three.
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