On 3/21/06 2:03 PM, "David Abrahams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Joel de Guzman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2006 02:04:02 +0800 >> Reply-To: [email protected] >> >> Daryle Walker wrote: >>> [I've added the main Boost list to this response so the MPL guys can see >>> it.] >>> >>> On 3/16/06 5:46 AM, "Joel de Guzman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>> >>>> In the link I presented a while ago (http://snipurl.com/no8s), >>>> you might have noticed that the headings are clickable. >>>> Headings now link to itself. Again, this is borrowed from >>>> the MPL docs. This allows you to right click and copy >>>> the URL, for example (especially useful in deeply nested >>>> sections). You know where you are, anywhere. >>> >>> So my final advice is to remove this mis-feature, and have the MPL docs >>> purge it too. >> >> Good points! Thanks for taking the trouble to explain in detail. >> Makes perfect sense, IMO. > > Not to me. Despite what Daryle says, the feature hurts nobody (or at > least he hasn't explained why it hurts anyone), and once you discover > it's there, it's very useful. If there were a more explicit way to > implement those links without interfering with presentation, I might > go for it, but I don't have any brilliant ideas and nobody else has > offered any so for now, that's the best we can do. You don't implement the feature at all, just read the URL from the browser's input/status line for copy & paste. The feature doesn't add anything the the user couldn't already do, and it has the UI disadvantages I mentioned. (1: Keep non-links, unused links, and visited links distinct. 2: Don't link a page to itself [as a whole, linking different sub-sections is OK].) -- Daryle Walker Mac, Internet, and Video Game Junkie darylew AT hotmail DOT com ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=110944&bid=241720&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Boost-docs mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe and other administrative requests: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/boost-docs
