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From: Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>
Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2021 14:58:02 +0100
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Change text direction of documentation pages
To: Nils <nils@nilsand.re>
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On Sun, Nov 7, 2021 at 5:31 PM Nils <nils@nilsand.re> wrote:

> This makes the browser (tested on Firefox and Chrome. This does not
> apply to Safari because it uses (what seems to be) heuristics to remove
> generic information from the title and the title is displayed centered)
> display the title right aligned in the tab bar allowing users to see
> which page they are on, instead of only the beginning of the title being
> visible, preventing switching between different documentation tabs
> quickly.
>
> This change was not generalised to other pages as the need is smaller on
> other pages. For example on the home page, seeing "...open source
> database" is not better than seeing "PostgreSQL: The world's...".
>


Interesting -- I had no idea this could be done :)

Thinking about it. I agree with the comment about the home page, but I
wonder if that is the *only* case where it actually makes sense the way it
is now, and that *all* other pages would be better off with this switch?

Can you (or someone else) think of another counterexample?

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generic information from the title and the title is displayed centered)<br>
display the title right aligned in the tab bar allowing users to see<br>
which page they are on, instead of only the beginning of the title being<br=
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visible, preventing switching between different documentation tabs<br>
quickly.<br>
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database&quot; is not better than seeing &quot;PostgreSQL: The world&#39;s.=
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div>--<br></div></div><div dir=3D"ltr" class=3D"gmail_signature"><div dir=
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