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In message detail view, message nav links disappear scrolling large messages #284

Open hassanakbar4 opened 5 years ago

hassanakbar4 commented 5 years ago

component_MailArchive: User Interface type_defect | by rcross@amsl.com

I was just referred to a list thread in the Mailarchive, with pretty long posts, and after a couple of rounds of reading to the end of a post (but still not at the end of the mail, since previous quoted text extended beyond the bottom of the window), mousing to the top of the window, and not finding the thread forward '>' link unless I scrolled the window, I realized that it would probably be much more user-friendly to render the < Date > and < Thread > link sets in the top menu-bar, rather than in a separate pane at the top of the message content. Would save space, too :-)

Issue migrated from trac:2736 at 2021-09-22 16:55:51 +0500

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Ryan: My gut reaction is that these links don't belong in the top header / nav bar, that people wouldn't expect them to be there. That said, I do see your point about the usability issue in large messages. At one point these links were in a pane on the right, and if it didn't scroll that would solve the problem. I'd like to consider other options and maybe look at how other sites solve this problem.

Henrik: Sure, understood, although I would not grant the argument of "don't belong there" too much weight. We don't have a lot of precedent here, but I find at least one mail archiving solution that lets you scroll the message in a pane, Gmail, and they keep the navigation buttons (forward and backward angle brackets) in a static header above the message pane. That static header is much more complex than ours, with two lines and a bunch of controls we don't have, but the basic idea of putting the navigation in a header is there, as I see it.

I think Gmane also has a similar mode, but it seems to be down at the moment, so I can't check their layout.

hassanakbar4 commented 4 years ago

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