Daryle Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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,
Unless you have been very unclear (which is what I assume you meant by saying that Joel and I have "confused ourselves"), it certainly does. It provides a way to find a direct link to the subsection header. When I've had to do that with other pages I often find myself viewing the page source to see if there's an <a name="..."> tag I can use, which is terrible. If you use the original docutils semantics, it also provides a way to see where you are in the TOC in context. -- Dave Abrahams Boost Consulting www.boost-consulting.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
