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Moin,
On Thursday 29 December 2005 19:42, nigel kerr wrote:
Tels wrote:
Sounds very interesting for well, slide shows (don't kill me!).
okay, i won't kill you. seriously, though, slide-shows are indeed a worthwhile usage here, if you want to lead readers through a sequence of things at least in a given a priori way.
I was partly joking, but I indeed constructed a slideshow on one wiki for a presentation, because that seemed much easier for me to edit than using any other program.
And adding manually "next page, last page" links became tedious :)
Two things missing:
- the Nav Map should have links to the pages in question instead of
being just a list.
i had been taking a cue from MediaWiki:Sidebar here, and just including the page names as data to be used, not links. this does make it easier to parse through the list looking for a page, one doesn't have to clear the link-structure out of the way first. what advantages can you see from doing as you suggest?
Well, to have an overview with clickable links? Hm, I see, you already get these on the first page. But my very first instinct was to try to click any of the headlines to go there.
I think having a human-parsable (with links) and machine-parsable (easier format) page might be worthwhile. Maybe add an XML or whatever output.
(I can even see that this gets turned into a graph automatically....*cough*)
- the very first page (like in the outline) should have a "next page"
link.
so, like, to get one started, you're saying? probably pretty easy.
some parameters or further work that would be probably helpful to be able to apply it to a variety of situations:
* style information for the links and for the toc box * controls for what links to show when ("put a 'next page' on theTOC page"...)
* localized messages for whatever language the user prefers * it's possible for a single content page to be in more than onenav map, so a way to distinguish the nav links for the different maps ("Vacation Pictures: Prev - Up - Next" and then "Embarrassing Pictures: Prev - Up - Next" could both apply to that one picture from the summer at the beach...)
:-)
Best wishes,
Tels
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