278907 - Display the position within the document by showing the percentage at that point.

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: General, enhancement)

Description

[man0ai]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

When scrolling a large page it would be nice to go back to a certain point
within the page. It is proposed that by showing the percentage at that point the
user can  return to that section later. For instance if my desired section is
found at point 56%, then the scroll bar(or somewhere else) would display that
figure. The user would know that he is at that point within the page and when
returning to the page he can return to the point by going to position 56%. 
This is just the basic idea and open to any suggestions. As a student/researcher
I understand that such a facility will help when reading online articles and papers.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Matthew T (active 1999-2002)]

I think this is a duplicate of bug 22175, bug 72775, and bug 72776. Any UI 
more obtrusive than those described therein would IMO be too cluttersome.
(--> General, coz this sure ain't Location Bar & Autocomplete.)

Comment 2

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

This could be useful, in the same way that Word/Acrobat seem to have a
tooltip-like item showing where you are page-wise.  Not sure how obstrusive this
would really be, but it seems like if you had a small tooltip showing the
percentage just to the left of the top edge of the scrollbar, that'd be perfect,
yet subtle enough to not interfere with scanning the page as you scroll.  The
next question would be whether we'd do this for autoscroll too... which gets
trickier.

Leaving this for now, requires further thought/possibly a test impl (which
doesn't mean we'll take it, but if this was implemented it'd be easier to look
at/refine).

Comment 3

[David P James]

Mass edit: Changing QA to default QA Contact

Comment 4

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

On second thought (four years later!) percentage doesn't really give you anything useful, so this doesn't seem useful enough to implement.