So I&#39;m torn on this. I like the tablet mockup with a table of contents on the side (though I actually tend to use the normal view on a tablet) but am a bit skeptical about the phone sized one. <br><ul><li>The small issue: The floating contents button covers up a bit of content (not much obviously but anything will while scrolling) and has some oddities while using. <br>

</li><li>The bigger issue is fairly easy to fix: There is no way to escape out of the contents section (like an x or back) other then clicking a section once it&#39;s opened which was confusing when I wanted to drop back to the main list of condensed sections.<br>

</li></ul><p>The biggest thing though is more of a gut feeling. It just feels... clunky. I think that if using the site myself I&#39;d rather use the, already hidden, sections (pressing show/hide as needed) rather then the contents and save the extra click each time. Having to click over in the corner to get a table of contents seems a bit superfluous when the section list (with a show/hide) essentially acts as the same thing showing what is available.</p>

<p><br></p><p>James<br></p><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 11:35 AM, Brion Vibber <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:bvibber@wikimedia.org" target="_blank">bvibber@wikimedia.org</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>


<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Did a quick mockup of a floating/togglable table of contents for the mobile view:<br><br><a href="http://svn.wikimedia.org/svnroot/mediawiki/trunk/mockups/mobile-sections/index.html" target="_blank">http://svn.wikimedia.org/svnroot/mediawiki/trunk/mockups/mobile-sections/index.html</a><br>



<br>* sets up section 0 as a togglable section as well<br>* on narrow screens, ToC shows fullscreen, triggered by a floating fixed button in the corner, so it&#39;s always available<br>* on wider screens (such as tablets), ToC shows as a fixed sidebar<br>



<br>This is a fairly primitive quicky mockup and requires position:fixed to work (&#39;for reals&#39; would need some smarts for some platforms to scroll things around) and makes no attempt for things to be formatted nicely. ;) Clicking a section in the toc bar also does a toggle rather than unconditional _show_, so sometimes hides things instead. ;)<br>



<br>Seems to work in iOS 5 (iPod Touch and iPad) and Android 2.3 (Nexus 1 stock browser), as well as on desktop Firefox.<br><br><br>Any thoughts? I kinda like the notion of having navigation controls always accessible; perhaps tweak things with a nicer section list and displaying only one section at a time by default.<br>



<br>(A lot of portal-style pages also interact poorly with our mobile section collapse/expand right now, so that might need some adjustment as well...)<br><font color="#888888"><br>-- brion<br>
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