silva sidebar

dear developers

we have a site here where i have to scroll over 20 pages (on a 20"  
monitor) to get from the top of the smi to the bottom. this renders  
the sidebar completely useles. because its faster to just navigate to  
the desired location then searching for the folder in the side bar.

a few thoughts:

would it be possible to implement these elipse kind of abbreviation  
you are using elsewhere in the smi also in the sidebar? the problem  
is that not all authors use the short title feature. therefore, some  
of the folders take up to 6 lines in the sidebar.

would it be possible to make it user configurable to turn the sidebar  
off?

if the sidebar would be just a nested list you could control its  
appearance with some fancy css (DOM?) and the user could click on  
some links to change it (and store it in a cookie). e.g. show/hide  
sidebar, show/hide icons, show only publications, show only the top 3  
levels, ... my knowledge about css is very limited so the above might  
not be doable at all.

regards,
marc