On Sun, Jul 15, 2007 at 06:38:17PM -0400, Simetrical wrote:
But she was also, as I said, confused about the second
choice, as the
Germans have it. Happily, she was an art professor, so she was able
to articulate her issues well and make constructive suggestions. She
remarked that having the line under the section header was unusual and
confusing, and suggested it be moved above the header. (I don't think
this is feasible as an aesthetic change, given that the problem will
remain for third-level and deeper headings.) She thought it was much
more natural for the edit link to be in the lower right of the section
instead of anywhere on the top, saying something to the effect of that
it made more sense to want to edit the section *after* you've read it,
if I understood her correctly. I showed her the suggestion with a
downward-pointing arrow, and her opinion on that was that it was
inelegant and unexpected, but that at least if you *thought* about it
it was unambiguous.
I've just had a blinding flash of the obvious, for a potential solution
that could help, at least, people with current day desktop browsers
(that's what, 95% of the audience? :-)
Could we mouseover the edit links to change the background color of the
appropriate div from default to, perhaps, pink, to illustrate which
section you're about to edit?
Cheers,
-- jra
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