Stan wrote:
The TOC should be just above the
first section heading. Otherwise
the lead paragraph, the one that
tells you what the article is
actually about, can be pushed
down so far it's completely off
the initial screen, which is bad.
I agree completely. Take a look at how ugly and
unusable this is:
http://test.wikipedia.org/wiki/Be .
As a reader, I'm only interested
in the TOC when I've read the lead
and decided that this article is
the one I'm looking for; at that
point my eyes will be at the end
of the lead, and a TOC at that
point helps me decide between
reading the whole article or just
jumping to a section of special
interest.
Yep.
It would be cool if sidebar vs
main flow was a preference.
It would be really cool if the TOC were placed
entirely in the sidebar or at the very least after the
intro section (either way we would have to encourage
short headings or the result will be over-widened
pages on low res screens).
-- Daniel Mayer (aka mav)
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