Daryle Walker wrote:
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].)
I'm not sure what you mean by "the user couldn't already do".
The input/status line reflects the URL of the page, not the
section where you are in. In a long page, you want to link to
the exact section, not the whole page.
For example, I'd want to link to the "Invariants" section of
the MPL doc's "ForwardSequence" concept at http://tinyurl.com/omouw,
how can I do that easily without the self link? Try it!
The only way is to link to the page and say, "ok, please go to
link http://tinyurl.com/omouw and see section Invariants." How
usable is that? The user will have to search a potentially long
page for the particular /Invariants/ section. 1) Imagine if the
page is long. 2) What if there are more than one /Invariants/
in various sub-sections?
Regards,
--
Joel de Guzman
http://www.boost-consulting.com
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