Comment by flipacholas

5 years ago

The tabs were made to prevent the user from scrolling indefinitely if he/she is not interested in one section in particular. This only appears in desktop (not mobile).

I'm not a web dev though, so I don't mind switching to a better pattern. Do you know a better one?

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Sholmesy  5 years ago

FWIW I thought they were well implemented, though unique.

I think the difficulty for some readers (myself included) is that they are non-standard/different from how every other web page works.

I actually quite liked them, kind of like an extended aside.

paulmd  5 years ago

Having a page consists of a series of "tabs" is not a very good pattern because it's not at all intuitive what is going to change (and it's only going to be part of the page) when you actually click it.

Would rather just have a table of contents with items and sub-items.

yjftsjthsd-h  5 years ago

Table of contents (made of links to sections) at the top?

  • flipacholas  5 years ago

    I experimented a bit with a ToC wikipedia-style but the results didn't fit very well with the rest of the design. I'll try to allocate more time in the future to focus on the design.

    • andai  5 years ago

      Oh, many years ago I wrote a script to automatically generate a Wikipedia style ToC based on the semantic structure of an article.

      I will find it when I get home and reply to this comment.

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