Stas Bekman wrote:
> > i don't understand you here stas. do you mean the actual
> > relevant header won't scale well?
> > or did you mean the breadcrumb/path idea won't scale well.
> > both scale well here.
> 
> the breadcrumb/path idea. By 'scaling' I meant the length of the titles.
> The possible cons are:
> 
> 1. very long concatenation of many long titles
> 2. pages with short sections where this overhead will be significant and
> instead of improving the experience, will make it worse.
> 
> You should to test with these 2 cases and you will see better what I mean.

i understand you now. yes, that would probably not look too
good with very long concatenations where there's a small
section at the same time.

> 
> If we do agree to proceed with this idea nevertheless, I suggest to
> improve the user experience by showing the actual nesting, similar to
> the old split version of the guide, e.g. see:
> http://thingy.kcilink.com/modperlguide/install/Callback_Hooks.html
> Click on the sub-menus to see how the nesting change, also note that
> childred and listed as well, if you click on parents.

> I'm afraid this can be a problem with 2. but solves 1.

agreed.


> yes. There are two ways people read the guide:
> 
> 1. sequencial - read from the top to the bottom (no need for the nav
> help here)
> 2. selective - when learning a certain short topic or solving a problem:
> usually getting to the spot via the search or the TOC (no problem here
> as well)
> 
> So I'm afraid this extra info will be too much of a noise.

ok

 
> I wish tooltips had a better utilization, so this extra info could be
> displayed on demand. We could use DHTML for that, but I'm afraid we will
> release the new site in Apr, 2003 then.

IMHO i know DHTML pretty well, but we dont want js
introduced either do we. what is tooltips?
 
./allan

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