- From: David Booth <dbooth@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2002 15:18:00 -0500
- To: wai-xtech@w3.org
[I am resending this at Dom's request, with references corrected inline, since I had incorrectly linked to W3C Team-only archives instead of public archives. --D. Booth] >Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2002 12:07:44 -0500 >To: wai-xtech@w3.org >From: David Booth <dbooth@w3.org> >Subject: Re: Proposed improvements to the mailing lists archives > >Dom & Al, > >Thanks for doing this. I was just talking at lunch last week about the >confusing format of the list archives, and how I had not yet figured out >how to easily navigate them. > >Here are my suggestions. Note that I have created some annotated screen >shots for explanation, and also some suggested new HTML markup, all >referenced below. > >1. At present, http://lists.w3.org/Archives/ yields nothing. Make it >forward to http://lists.w3.org/ . > >2. The hierarchical structure and navigation of the many lists is not >clearly reflected in the page format. See this annotated example of a >message page: > >http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Team/w3t-archive/2002Mar/att-0225/01-archive-msg-problems2.JPG URL should be: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-archive/2002Mar/att-0059/01-archive-msg-problems2.JPG >And this annotated example of a list page: > >http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Team/w3t-archive/2002Mar/att-0225/02-archive-list-problems2.JPG URL should be: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-archive/2002Mar/att-0059/02-archive-list-problems2.JPG >This problem can be solved by placing a consistent navigation line at the >top of each page, to indicate the current position in the hierarchical >structure, with the higher elements hot-linked, like these: > > [1] (Message) > http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Team/w3t-archive/2002Mar/att-0225/03-archive-msg-format.html > [2] (List) > http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Team/w3t-archive/2002Mar/att-0227/01-archives-list-format.html > [3] (Public) > http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Team/w3t-archive/2002Mar/att-0225/04-archive-public-format.html > [4] (Top) > http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Team/w3t-archive/2002Mar/att-0225/05-archive-top.html URLs should be: [1] (Message) http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-archive/2002Mar/att-0059/03-archive-msg-format.html [2] (List) http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-archive/2002Mar/att-0060/01-archives-list-format.html [3] (Public) http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-archive/2002Mar/att-0059/04-archive-public-format.html [4] (Top) http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-archive/2002Mar/att-0059/05-archive-top.html >Note the addition of the navigation line at the top of each page, showing >our context in the list hierarchy. Sorry about the crude arrows in the >navigation line. They should be replaced with something more attractive, >but I didn't have anything else handy. > >3. The pages above ([1] [2] [3] [4]) also contain a few other format >suggestions, to help clarify the pages, save space, and increase >consistency. In particular, they contain the following suggested changes: > > In [1]: Moved the hierarchical navigation to the top of the page, > as explained above. Moved the Starting and Ending dates to the same line > as one displaying the number of messages, to save vertical space. > > In [2]: Added the hierarchical navigation line to the top. > > In [3]: Changed the heading and title to "Mailing List Archives: > Public". (The "Member" and "Team" versions should be changed > correspondingly.) Added W3C logo and the hierarchical navigation line to > the top. > > In [4]: Changed the heading and title to be more user > friendly. Changed the list descriptions to be more consistent. (So > each one is called ". . . list archives".) I neglected to put the > hierarchical navigation line at the top, but maybe it should be there, > for consistency with [1] [2] and [3]. > >The MOST important of these suggestions is to use a hierarchical >navigation line at the top. > >Thanks, > >David Booth >W3C Fellow / Hewlett-Packard >Telephone: +1.617.253.1273 David Booth W3C Fellow / Hewlett-Packard Telephone: +1.617.253.1273
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