[haiku-web] Re: [new feature] New way of maintaining developer documentation

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jorge G. Mare" <koki@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: haiku-web@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [haiku-web] Re: [new feature] New way of maintaining developer  
> documentation
> Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2009 23:13:59
> 
> 
> Hi Niels,
> 
> Niels Reedijk said on Wed, 11 Mar 2009 18:08:21 +0100
> > 2009/3/12 Jorge G. Mare <koki@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> > >> Notes:
> > >> 1. Design. On the left there are two blocks. One is a custom block > > I
> > >> wrote which describes the page. The other one is an automatic > > block
> > >> that generates a table of contents of the book. When I first put > > the
> > >> block in the right column (with the yellow blocks), it sort of
> > >> disappeared, so I decided to put this info in the left column.
> > >> However, in order to keep the content readable, I had to hide the
> > >> right column. Personally I think I did the right thing with this
> > >> design. It could use some CSS love.
> > >
> > > For consistency purposes I think it would be much better to stay > with
> > > the standard layout where the blocks are to the right of the body. > Not
> > > sure what you mean by "it sort of dissapeared", but putting the > book
> > > block to the right should definitely work. What exactly happens?
> >
> > What I mean is that when I put the block to the right, you lose the
> > sense that the particular block is a navigation of the current page.
> > Traditionally navigation blocks of any docs are in the left margin,
> > added to that, it was difficult to separate the block from the others
> > .
> > Of course we can fix that with CSS styling, but I implemented this
> > left-side block.
> 
> I don't think there is a general rule that menu blocks have to be on
> one side or the other of the body text; it is more a matter of how the
> website has been designed (ie., the Gnome user guide has the navigation
> menu to the right).
> 
> Shijin was designed to have navigation blocks on the right side; putting
> blocks on the opposite side only on some pages is not only weird, but
> it may also break the page layout rendering, as the left column is not
> taken into account in the theme (even when the left region exists,
> that's just a remnant from the spreadfirefox theme that shijin was
> based on).

There is however such a thing as a universal F-shaped reading pattern,
which more or less asks for navigation blocks to be on the left.
See: http://www.useit.com/alertbox/reading_pattern.html

Ciao,
Meanwhile 


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