Quote me on this: The SAGE notebook will NEVER have multi-level dropdowns.
If I ever suggest it, remind me of this. If I persist, throw something at my head. On Fri, 16 Mar 2007, Nils Bruin wrote: > > 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/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
