[Bf-docboard] Visual Improvements to the Manual

[S J Bennett]

Allo,

Thanks for putting together these proposed changes Greg. :)

  * Nav bar giving loadless access to the whole document tree is a good
    idea as long as the document currently being viewed is given visual
    priority of some sort, tree can be expanded/collapsed, etc. It's
    been mentioned previously.
  * New reference box style is much more readable. :)
  * I wouldn't hate it if the page width was a bit broader - if people
    want a narrower reading area they can resize their browsers or zoom
    in/out on their mobile devices. It's personal taste.

Re image captions, I guess go with figure and figcaption + CSS styling 
if that's not what we're already doing? 
http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_figcaption.asp - pretty sure you can 
just set CSS like

figure { width: auto; }
figcaption { width: 100%; }

to take care of your caption issues as opposed to hard-setting a width 
somewhere. Less programmatic maintenance required. I can ask one of the 
tame web designers at my day job how to make it work if I'm wrong.

cheers,
S J

On 27/02/2015 10:27 PM, Greg Zaal wrote:
> Hey all :)
>
> I've written down some ideas for improving the appearance of the 
> manual, which would mostly be done with just some CSS tweaks.
>
> Roughly:
>
>   * Navigation Bar showing whole tree
>   * Reference Box formatting and consistency
>   * Broken Links more apparent
>   * Image Captions to look more like captions
>   * More space after italics
>   * Clear Search Highlight
>   * Page Width larger
>
> But read the full page here for details: 
> http://gregzaal.com/junk/html/proposals/visual_improvements.html
>
> Do you agree/disagree with any of these ideas? Do you have any other 
> suggestions?
>
> Cheers,
> Greg
>
>
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