[Bf-committers] Testing some CSS changes to the Blender Manual

[Aaron Carlisle]

I updated that particular index and hopefully it is less confusing.

If people still do not like the change we can do a one column layout
which will be more similar to how the current indices look.

On Wed, May 4, 2016 at 12:18 PM, Harley Acheson <harley.acheson at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Aaron,
>
> A couple of suggestions off the top of my head about the index, which
> apply to both your changes and the current version
>
>
> - Clicking on an index section header opens up that section. But clicking
> again on the same spot does not close it again. You must click on the
> little "minus" to close even though you allow clicking anywhere to open.
> Actions like this are assumed to be reversible so clicking anywhere on the
> section header should close it if open.
>
> - Related to the first issue, but separate in case you choose to make one
> change and not another: You can click on a closed section title to open it
> and then close it with the "+" (as mentioned above). But at this point,
> with
> all sections closed you must click on the last section's "+" to open it
> again
> even though you can click anywhere on the titles of all its siblings. These
> items are in identical states so should behave the same.
>
> - When all index sections are closed you show a "+" on hover only for
> the current section and that doesn't make sense because all sections will
> expand the same way when clicked - the currently viewed one is no
> different. If the intention is to show which item is "active" then that
> should
> be done is a different way. If the intent is really to show the user what
> would
> happen when the item is clicked then the "+" should be shown on hover for
> all items.
>
> - Clicking on a section to open it will bring us to that section's "index"
> page.
> the links inside that section take us to places within that area. A problem
> (and an objection to my suggestions above) is that the section links do
> not include one to the index file. So I've decided to examine the contents
> of an area but that examination contains everything but the starting point.
> The contents should include everything, including a link to the index. It
> is
> okay that the header to the section also contains a shortcut to the same
> place as a convenience.
>
>
> Regards, Harley
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