Re: Proposed improvements to the mailing lists archives

le ven 29-03-2002 à 05:12, Al Gilman a écrit :
> 1. I would like to see David's hierarchical-theme navbar concept.  That probably stands between us and the next step. 

David has sent a new mail with public references. Let us know what you
think.

>  Which I think of as having a whole list or at least a whole period
> working with multiple index pages and multiple messages cross-linked.

Hmm... I'm not sure how easy that would be. I'll need to check with
Jose, but I agree that it would be a good way to proceed.

> 3. The skip-nav link in the 'period view' index page mockup needs a title, perhaps
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> from 
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> <a href="#first" accesskey="j">58 messages</a>
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> to
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> <a href="#first" accesskey="j" title="jump to">58 messages</a>

Implemented.
 
> 5. Use of the label "contemporary messages":
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> I agree it is awkward.  I was trying to save the implementer putting in [this month | this quarter] as appropriate.  
> 
> Furthermore @@ I don't know what to do about the following:
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> The actual function if your browser implements #fragment references right is to take you to "this message in date context"  and respectively " in thread context,"  "...in subject context,"  "...in author context."
> 
> It takes you not just to these indices, but to them shifted to put the current message at the origin of navigation.  The different staring point for navigation is important to understand because in speech it won't be obvious that it is the same page as arriving at the top of the page.  These links are not synonymous with the links emanating from other places, all of which start one at the top of the page.

I see your point but don't have a good solution either.
 
> 6. The page title element for the message page should be front-loaded better [start with information specific to this message, not list-wide info]
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> from
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> <title>wai-xtech@w3.org from August 2001: Re: archive: top-level index</title>
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> to
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> <title>Re: archive: top-level index page with adjusted link text <?punctuation?/> wai-xtech@w3.org</title>
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> The <?punctuation?/> could be "-on-" or a dash or whatnot.
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> I would even consider dropping the list address from this page title.

Implemented.

Thanks for the feedback!

Dom
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