On 1 September 2010 17:16, Joshua D. Drake <jd@commandprompt.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-09-01 at 11:03 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Thom Brown <thom@linux.com> writes:
>> > I've added an experimental content navigation menu (appears in
>> > top-right-hand corner) which jumps to sections of the same page. It
>> > only appears on pages which have items to navigate to, including the
>> > main index.
>>
>> Hmmm ... that's potentially useful, but I really really dislike the way
>> that the button hangs there despite scrolling. It's intrusive and it
>> absolutely screams "won't work in all browsers". Can't it just be a
>> button or menu at the top of the page?
>
> It is going to work in any modern browser, which is what we *need* to be
> targeting and it won't hurt anyone that doesn't have one. It is a pretty
> stock thing to do in the current web design methodologies (even blip.tv
> does it).
>
> The one thing I would mention, is that I didn't see it. Part of that is
> my large screen (1080p, 24") but the other part is, people on this side
> of the world read left to right. If we are going to have this, I would
> recommend it be on the left hand side instead.
I would have thought that would be even more obtrusive for those with
small screens as it would overlap content on the left-hand side and
constantly get in the way. If you consider that it can't be in the
header on the left-hand-side as it would appear in front of the logo,
then it would have to go further down, and as soon as you begin
scrolling it looks odd being part-way down the page.
I'm going to remove it anyway. Was just an idea.
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