If lots of options get added then menus are unavoidable, but currently I don't think the options presented in the notebook take up real estate that would otherwise get good use. Avoiding drop-down menus has the advantage that all options are immediately visible. Having to first drop down the menu does add another layer of indirection.
For the help: From experience (my university uses them quite a bit), I find that multi-level CSS drop down menus are a rather mixed blessing. The problem: Path of the pointing device becomes important in addition to the position of the click. Try navigating one a few levels deep using an oversensitive trackpad on a laptop. Does anybody know how accessibility tools can make sense of drop down menus? I think good search access would provide a much better interface to the help than a drop-down hierarchical contents list. Even just a search tool that produces a page with the lines from the index that match a given substring would be very useful. I find I never access computer algebra system help via contents lists, but always via search or index. In all, I think I'd side with Tish on this one. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://sage.scipy.org/sage/ and http://modular.math.washington.edu/sage/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
