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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