Re: New website: what's the sense of '(main)'?

[Patrick McCarty]

On Sat, Jan 2, 2010 at 5:52 PM, Graham Percival
<address@hidden> wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 02, 2010 at 02:26:06PM -0800, Patrick McCarty wrote:
>> On 2010-01-02, John Mandereau wrote:
>> > the new website, I don't understand why it's there: the topmost parent
>> > section of the page currently viewed is already reachable from the top
>> > bar.  Therefore, I'm for removing it; however, if somebody gives a good
>> > reason for keeping it *and* proposes a nicer name for it e.g. "Up to
>> > toplevel section (%s)" % the actual name of up section, I'm glad to
>> > either implement it if it takes little time.
>>
>> I think we should remove it.
>
> When you're clicked through a few options in a chapter, you've
> been staring at the highlighted second-level TOC changing.  It's
> not obvious how to get back to the first page, if you want to see
> the overview of pages in that chapter again.  This is a problem in
> the old website.

Okay, I see your point.

> I'll entertain a renaming (if introduction wasn't already taken,
> we could use that; I suppose we could even duplicate the
> chapter-name instead of (main)).  I've already asked that the
> (main) link be the same color+shading as the top navbar, but
> that's a CSS issue and not my responsibility.  But the actual
> second-level TOC item itself is staying.

I think that using the chapter name instead of "(main)" would be
perfect.  I'll take care of the CSS problem tonight.

Thanks,
Patrick