Re: [restyle] Questionnaire wrt Redesign of the W3C Spec Templates

Ahh. Okay. I will put a respec issue in for that. It's a good idea
regardless.
On Oct 14, 2014 12:08 PM, "David Singer" <singer@apple.com> wrote:

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> On Oct 14, 2014, at 9:28 , Shane McCarron <shane@aptest.com> wrote:
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> > Isn't that the table of contents?
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> That is a full-depth header-only view.  I am suggesting we can do
> interactive folding to the depth needed, either for sections at a time, or
> for the whole document
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> >
> > On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 11:15 AM, David Singer <singer@apple.com> wrote:
> > sounds awesome.
> >
> > Another thing that might make online reading great would be folding.  I
> wonder how it would feel to have (a) ‘twist-downs’ on each header, to
> show/hide the contents and (b) some way to say that for the whole document,
> I want to see headers of say sections 1, 2, 3, and the header and content
> of 1.1, 2.1, 3.1, but not 1.2…
> >
> > So, assuming each chapter has an intro sub-section, this gives you an
> overview of the document.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Oct 14, 2014, at 3:03 , Robin Berjon <robin@w3.org> wrote:
> >
> > > On 13/10/2014 19:53 , David Singer wrote:
> > >> For a spec. of any size, I think we could do much better at providing
> > >> (automatically) navigation help etc.  Perhaps that includes the
> > >> multi-page/one-page choices.  For me it also includes (a) knowing
> > >> where anchors are, so I can point at them from the outside (if they
> > >> are not part of the index, it’s not evident they are there).
> > >>
> > >> Something that is probably more than ReSpec and is surely more than
> > >> styling would be to make it much easier to know where concepts are
> > >> used — ‘backlinks’ (this anchor is referred to from X, Y, Z), and so
> > >> on.
> > >
> > > About a year ago I spent some time hacking on a small script called
> "specstatic":
> > >
> > >    https://github.com/darobin/specstatic
> > >
> > > I haven't had time to pursue it properly, but the goal was to offer
> out of the box enhancements for all specs (not just ReSpec generated,
> anything that relies on some minimal conventions), including:
> > >
> > >  - Built-in dialog to submit new bugs
> > >  - Make all headers easily linkable with a permalink indicator (though
> that might be best supported by generators directly)
> > >  - Make <dfn> popup a list of places where the definition is used.
> > >  - Make bibrefs link back to their usage instances.
> > >  - Inject a more readable style than what is used on TR that people
> could optionally turn on (and that would stick through a cookie).
> > >  - Highlight other instances of a variable in an algorithm when one is
> hovered.
> > >
> > > And likely a bunch of other niceties that I forget about. I will
> probably return to it at some point, in the meantime feel free to grab,
> fork, dissect, replace, etc. if you think it's useful.
> > >
> > > --
> > > Robin Berjon - http://berjon.com/ - @robinberjon
> > >
> >
> > David Singer
> > Manager, Software Standards, Apple Inc.
> >
> >
> >
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> David Singer
> Manager, Software Standards, Apple Inc.
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