version control on website

Dave Pawson davep at dpawson.co.uk
Thu Sep 16 16:28:23 UTC 2004


On Wed, 2004-09-15 at 23:12, Paul W. Frields wrote:


> I see your point, Tammy, but my feeling would be to opt for only two (or
> three) subheadings under the current "Docs" nav bar entry:
> 
>   Docs
>     by Title
>     by FC Release
>     [FAQ]* 
> 
> *This would be that extra structure I mentioned; not really a FAQ, but
> an organization of questions that would link to the Title index.
> 
> With the very aggressive release schedule of Fedora Core, it wouldn't be
> long before the nav bar became very crowded (FC2 through FC6, anyone?).
> The Docs Project doesn't currently have a policy for when we won't
> publish documentation anymore for a release, and I'm not sure we should
> have one. There may be people as comfortable staying with certain
> releases as they were staying with, say, Red Hat Linux 7.3. I would try
> and leave the nav bar as generic as possible while still being useful.
> 
> I'm sure there are problems with this idea, so I welcome the inevitable
> holes to be shot through it! :-)

It struck me that Tammy was getting hung up on the left hand nav bar.
The fact that it has navigability issues for accessibility isn't the
only
reason to question it.

A plain html list or other structure wouldn't hurt too much,
and would provide the options.







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