On Wednesday, July 17, 2024, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > David Rowley <dgrowle...@gmail.com> writes: > > On Thu, 18 Jul 2024 at 16:55, Muhammad Ikram <mmik...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> when we hover over Table Basics, it shows # sign postfixed. I think it > needs to be removed > > > In [1], there was some talk about using another more suitable > > character. If the purpose of the '#' isn't obvious, then maybe we > > should use something else. > > Yeah. I've found this new feature useful multiple times already, > but the '#' icon is as non-mnemonic and unobvious as could possibly > be. OTOH, I don't know of a standard icon for this feature.
The fact that clicking this gave me a link with “#ANCHOR” appended to it made the use of # make perfect sense, at least in hindsight. Can we use a boat anchor symbol? I get that my ideas do have the problem that I’m familiar with web nomenclature and details at a lower level than most of the readers we are trying to help with this change… I feel the bug here, though possibly rarely to be read, is to note this behavior on the “Conventions” page. > A different idea is to dispense with the icon and make the section > title itself be a link to itself. > If that includes styling it would solve what I’d say is the bigger issue that where these anchors exist is not always visible. I suppose understanding all major headings should have links makes sense, but we’ve probably got 30% (w.a.g.) of our tables with them as well. It also would have helped here possibly by not looking like a random buggy thing on mouse-over but instead quite evidently part of our navigation. David J.
