From: Jonathan S. Katz <jkatz@postgresql.org>
To: David G. Johnston <david.g.johnston@gmail.com>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
Cc: Steven Pousty <steve.pousty@gmail.com>
Cc: Pg Docs <pgsql-docs@lists.postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: The sub-categories do not have anchors on this page
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2020 10:15:12 -0500
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On 12/17/20 10:11 AM, David G. Johnston wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 17, 2020 at 8:01 AM Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us
> <mailto:bruce@momjian.us>> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Dec 10, 2020 at 05:59:15PM -0300, Álvaro Herrera wrote:
> > On 2020-Dec-10, Steven Pousty wrote:
> >
> > > They certainly do at the top of the page, that's why I sent the
> second
> > > email. I was hoping to have anchors down the page where that
> actual topic
> > > is. The rational for this is, when I write a blog post, teach a
> class, help
> > > someone on slack... I can give them the URL right to the section
> I want
> > > them to read. This anchor would prevent just giving the url to
> the whole
> > > page and telling them to search for it.
> >
> > Ah -- so what you want is to have something like an icon (typically a
> > chain link icon) that appears next to the title, and points to itself?
> > Many sites do that. I think it's a useful idea and we should consider
> > it, but it's a modification that would be done to the tooling and so
> > it'd affect the whole documentation, not just this page.
>
> I see your point --- these sub-sections are mixed with others on the
> same page, so how would you know the link location? I usually dig
> through the sgml and find one, or add one if it is missing, but that is
> hardly scalable. Having a link icon makes sense --- even if they can
> just click on the subsection title and the URL changes to that section
> URL would be helpful.
>
>
> +1
>
> I would have used this numerous times recently when pointing people to
> where to find answers to their questions.
Something to help with this has been on my backlog for a bit. We may be
able to resolve this with the pgweb CSS layer.
Jonathan
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