187041 - site navigation toolbar needs more intelligent menu choices

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(SeaMonkey :: UI Design, defect)

Description

[Lachlan]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020826
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020826

As far as I can tell, when Mozilla encounters more than one link tag for items
which don't have lists in the nav toolbar it merely picks the first one that
occurs in the source. Instead, I think one of two methods should be used:

1. If multiple link tags are encountered for items which normally only have one
menu item, turn the menu item into a list, using the title attribute of the link
tags as the titles, so users can pick between them, or (and this is my preferred
one)

2. Have the browser decide which link is more relevant to the user. Eg, in my
page I use two copyright link tags, and mark-up the content-type of both. The
browser should be able to decide that a file of content type text/html is more
relevant to the user than a file of content-type of application/rdf+xml.

Of course these are not mutually exclusive: Maybe a list of user-readable
content-types could be used to decide which links are more relevant, and, if
there's more than one use-relevant type then switch over to a menu and let them
choose between them, either using the content type, eg "View copyright
information as plain text. View copyright information as HTML", or using the
title attributes.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Put links in a page with the human readable forms at the bottom.
Actual Results:  
The first one will be picked no matter what it's relevance to the user.

Expected Results:  
Only relevant links should be presented.

Comment 1

[Chris Lyon]

->XPapps

Comment 2

[Mathew McBride]

Does the site navigation toolbar still even work?

Build 2003102104.

Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 4

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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