Re: navigation menu for documents

Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>
>> On Friday 17 July 2009 15:58:27 Richard Huxton wrote:
>>
>>> 1. Fixed navigation
>>>
>
>
>>> 2. Titles on navigation links.
>>>
>> Yes, the DSSSL stylesheet could do that.
>>
>
> Since it seems we can get both of these without interfering with
> anything else I vote +1 on getting them it.
>
>
>>> 3. Javascript popup menu.
>>> This uses jquery, but that's just for convenience during discussion. You
>>> could rework this without it.
>>>
>
> This one looks very good to me too -- I like it better than David
> Wheeler's, because you just wave it away when you don't need it, saving
> screen estate. The only change I'd make it is that the righthand menu
> should have only the entries for the current chapter, not all chapters.
> But maybe that's just me.
>
>

This failed miserably to render nicely on several browsers on several
platforms. I'm pretty sure I followed the instructions correctly.

And I disagree about restricting the menu. The whole point is to make it
easy to navigate from one part of the docs to another without having to
go up the tree.

I'm not sure about using third party JS libs that are not BSD licensed,
that's probably a non-starter, although MIT is probably fairly close, IIRC.

cheers

andrew