From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Message-Id: <201101280340.p0S3eeW04533@momjian.us>
Subject: Re: documentation navigation
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To: Thom Brown <thom@linux.com>
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2011 22:40:40 -0500 (EST)
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Thom Brown wrote:
> On 28 January 2011 02:35, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
> > There has been discussion about how hard it is to navigate our
> > documentation, particularly the lack of an "Up" link at the top of the
> > page, and uselessness of the "fast forward/backward" links.
> >
> > Who is going to correct this? ?Should I do it? ?Where should I look?
> 
> I'd find it more useful if the navigation were more like the French
> version of the docs.  Instead of prev/next, it replaces them with the
> titles of the sections those links would navigate to, although I think
> it would be nicer to precede it with the section number too.  I don't
> think "up" is particularly useful either, since it's not clear what
> page you'll land on, which again, the French docs have solved by
> having a breadcrumb-style nav at the top.

Agreed.  That would be even better.  My point was just that we should do
_something_.

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