- From: Chris Mills <cmills@opera.com>
- Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2012 16:05:57 +0000
- To: Taylor Costello <nottaylorcostello@gmail.com>
- Cc: Jonathan Garbee <jonathan@garbee.me>, public-webplatform@w3.org
Ah, cool - great point to bring up, Taylor. So a combination of both solutions, or one, or a single hybrid solution, would be great. At the bottom wouldn't be such a bad place to put the site wide menu, if we felt that losing a bit more space at the top of each page was that big a deal. And we did at one point discuss having some kind of related links type bar or menu, which would provide useful things such as: * the previous and next articles (if in a specific linear series) * suggestions of other related articles to move on to next * canonical articles covering the basics of each technology covered (if you are in some kind of advanced article covering an advanced techniques that features a combination of technologies/features) * links to the W3 specs for the different technologies discussed in the article This is mainly useful for tutorials/concepts of course, but is it an ideal worth resurrecting? Chris Mills Open standards evangelist and dev.opera.com editor, Opera Software Co-chair, web education community group, W3C Author of "Practical CSS3: Develop and Design" (http://my.opera.com/chrismills/blog/2012/07/12/practical-css3-my-book-is-finally-published) * Try Opera: http://www.opera.com * Learn about the latest open standards technologies and techniques: http://dev.opera.com * Contribute to web education: http://www.w3.org/community/webed/ On 6 Dec 2012, at 15:12, Taylor Costello <nottaylorcostello@gmail.com> wrote: > Sorry, I couldn't link to the menu directly because it's not a header but I'll link as closely as possible: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematics#External_links > > Scroll down right under the external links, there is a menu to navigate to other pages related to mathematics. > > On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 8:03 AM, Jonathan Garbee <jonathan@garbee.me> wrote: > 1) How can we see Wikipedia's bottom menu? I have never encountered that before to my knowledge. > > 2) +1 to improving navigation using a global menu. > > -Garbee > > On 12/6/2012 10:00 AM, Taylor Costello wrote: >> If we wanted to avoid pushing the skin down or anything like that, it's possible we could make templates that are menus and place them on the bottom of every page. I would be interested in this too if anyone else likes it. Much like Wikipedia's bottom page menus. Either way, I really like this idea and I'd love to see it put into place, it would improve navigation times a million. :3 >> >> On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 7:57 AM, Chris Mills <cmills@opera.com> wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I thought this would be a good idea, as in general getting around the site is quite hard, so I thought a menu that would enable you to get to any of the major topics and subtopics would be useful. >> >> Here is the bug: >> >> https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=20250 >> >> This also includes a rough HTML/CSS mockup of the sort of menu I think would be useful. >> >> Thoughts? >> >> Chris Mills >> Open standards evangelist and dev.opera.com editor, Opera Software >> Co-chair, web education community group, W3C >> Author of "Practical CSS3: Develop and Design" (http://my.opera.com/chrismills/blog/2012/07/12/practical-css3-my-book-is-finally-published) >> >> * Try Opera: http://www.opera.com >> * Learn about the latest open standards technologies and techniques: http://dev.opera.com >> * Contribute to web education: http://www.w3.org/community/webed/ >> >> >> > >
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