Re: Ann: SWI-Prolog 7.1.5

Samer,

On 01/16/2014 09:34 PM, Abdallah, Samer wrote:
> 3. After playing with the auto-expansion of the navigation box for a bit, I'm
> 	not really sure about it - it feels a bit 'skittish'. Would it be possible 
>  	to introduce a delay before the box expands or contracts?
> 
> 	I notice that the main text reflows around the expanded box  -
> 	given that the reader's attention is probably on the 
> 	contents of the navigation box at this point, the effect seems, on
> 	balance, detrimental - to me it destroys the 'solidity' of the main
> 	text - it's as if it destroys the illusion of .. something, I'm not quite
>         sure what - perhaps it destroys the illusion of physicality, of text
> 	on a printed page. However, it may even destroy the semantics of 
> 	the main text layout, for example, it messes up the indentation of 
> 	indented lists, as on this page [ http://www.swi-prolog.org/pldoc/man?section=chr ]
> 	for example.	Also, the navigation box has a drop shadow when 
> 	expanded but not when contracted. 
> 
> 	Would it be possible to have something like this: 
> 	the main text fixed and unmoving (possibly
> 	on the same colour background as the rest of the page as mentioned
> 	in point 2) with the navigation box on the left, with a different
> 	coloured background (as it is now), with a *permanent* drop shadow,
> 	expanding *over* the main text after the user hovers over it for a certain
> 	amount of time. This way, the illusion is that there is a main page in
> 	a unified and static base layer, and a navigation box permanently floating
> 	in a layer above, expanding when necessary.

That was more or less my original intend.  Just, my CSS is too shaky for
that.  If
you can manage the required changes to make that work, please share them.

Note that the organization of the css is a mess.  If anyone feels like
cleaning it
all up, you make friends.  Please do contact me and/or Anne before to
avoid massive
conflicts.

	Thanks --- Jan