On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 08:25:49AM -0500, Jon Haupt wrote: > On 5/23/07, Patrick R. Michaud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 08:44:03AM +0100, Hans wrote: > >> One thing we could argue about is, that SideBar should have been named > >> LeftBar. > > > >I didn't use "LeftBar" because I wanted to preserve the > >possibility that it could go on either side. See, for example, > >"lean skin" and "light skin". > > And I'm only suggesting that SideBar could also be a top bar, or a > middle bar, or a popup navigation, and as such the name is lacking in > some ways. The skin template doesn't *need* to use location-based > names--indeed, I argue that it would make more sense not to. It's > just that our current system favors it.
I should also note that the "side" in "SideBar" wasn't necessarily intended to indicate location. In publishing, a "sidebar" is a panel that provides extra information about the main article. Semantically speaking, there would be nothing wrong with having a sidebar appear somewhere other than the left or right side of a page. Popups, middle panels, etc. would all make reasonable sense. Pm _______________________________________________ pmwiki-devel mailing list pmwiki-devel@pmichaud.com http://www.pmichaud.com/mailman/listinfo/pmwiki-devel