Re: WANTED: Design for documentation (Photoshop power users!)

[Reinhold Kainhofer]

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Am Mittwoch, 8. Oktober 2008 schrieb Alexander Kobel:
> address@hidden wrote:
> >>>>>> "Patrick" == Patrick McCarty <address@hidden> writes:
> >>>
> >>> also offer a safe-and-sound version, and have this
> >>> "ugly-but-efficient" narrow-TOC solution as a "large screen
> >>> optimized version"?
> >
> > Patrick> Good idea.  I'll start experimenting with this.
> >
> > Please make sure it still works on narrow screens (like my PDA), and
> > on text-only browsers.
>
> That's exactly what I meant. I reconsidered my wish for a narrower TOC,
> and concluded it might be better to have this as an /alternative/, not
> default, for large screens.
>
> Text-only browsers won't be affected too much, I guess, although I'm not
> perfectly sure about it - they might ignore the CSS anyway. Correct???

yes, at least lynx and w3m ignore all CSS and show the TOC at the bottom of 
each page instead of inside a sidebar on the left. That's one reason why I 
tried so hard to put the TOC after the contents in the .html file (although 
that proved too hard for myself to implement correctly in IE...).

> For a PDA, it may still be a little bit different - I suppose you don't
> want to have a TOC pane to the left at all, but prefer a TOC at the bottom?

Yes, we can easily add another alternative CSS, which does not make use of the 
tricky box positioniong to get the TOC to the left.

> @ our blind users:
> I assume LilyPond is one the few engraving system regularly used by some
> blind people, so we should not ignore this.
> Do you have special suggestions and wishes? Would it be wise to sort the
> content for screen readers in other order, for example?

That's another reason why I tried to put the TOC after the contents in the 
html page. Of course, since I'm not blind and have absolutely no experience 
with screen readers, I don't know if that's already sufficient.


Hehe, yeah, I remember the mail about being doomed and following someone 
having good ideas ;-)

Cheers,
Reinhold
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Reinhold Kainhofer, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
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