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Koen Martens wrote:
> Now, Julian mentioned that maybe [the mechanisms page] should be split up
> into smaller pages, one for each mechanism/modifier, instead of the one
> page with everything on it as it is now.. Eg:
>
> http://new.openspf.org/SPF_Record_Syntax
>
> or one overview page and several of these:
>
> http://new.openspf.org/auth/The_all_mechanism
> http://new.openspf.org/auth/The_a_mechanism
> 
> Personally, i prefer the one page approach. It gives a quick
> overview of the SPF record syntax without clicking or going back in
> the browser, plus it allows for easy printing...

Scott Kitterman wrote:
> I definitely vote all in one.  Additionally since, as Julian mentioned,
> we should shortly have the ability to support anchors in a page, I think
> most of the argument for separate pages goes away.

I'd prefer the one-page per mechanism/modifier style, with a list of links
to all the other mechanisms and modifiers, perhaps like this (I renamed the
single-mech pages):

  http://new.openspf.org/Mechanism/all
  http://new.openspf.org/Mechanism/a

The reason is that I generally prefer short pages with a strong focus on a
specific topic (IMO that also makes the most sense when having a user
comments facility such as on the PostgreSQL documentation website[1], which
I plan to implement soon).  Such single-mech pages could later include
additional info about the differences (if any) in SPFv2.1 syntax/semantics
of each modifier, and other stuff, too.

As far as printing is concerned, I don't think we should try to structure
our site along the needs of offline media such as printouts.  Besides, we
could always offer a facility that bundles several pages (perhaps as
defined by a classical ToC page) in a single HTML document (through page
includes) or even a PDF document.  The reverse cannot be done from
monolithic blocks of information.

References:
 1. 
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/interactive/functions-matching.html#POSIX-BASIC-REGEXES
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