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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 the
TOC page"...)
* localized messages for whatever language the user prefers
* it's possible for a single content page to be in more than one
nav 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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