Re: Slide out & floating bar

["Taylor" <taylor@xxxxxxxxx>]

Mihai Parparita wrote in message <3525D44E.ECD1C50E@xxxxxxxxxx>...

>While that is a good idea, I have a feeling that some (perhaps most)
designers
>aren't going to use the Site Tools features because it's not consistent
with
>the rest of the site. And they would have to include a standard navigation
bar
>anyway, in case the user is using an older browser or has the bar closed
(is
>it possible to detect the state of the bar through JavaScript?).


I think that more designers will be upset with the lost pixels due to the
constant gray stripe. (I know I'm harping on this issue)

Having the navigation moved to a consistant place and format, if it catches
on, will free most designers from having to develop their own site UI, which
usually means copying the way C|net does it :-) If this catches on this will
be a great thing for web pages.  Imagine not having to learn a new
navigation scheme for each and every site, or imagine not having to DESIGN a
new navigation scheme for every site.  You could just concentrate on how
that page looked.  Unfortunatly it's the look of the page that is hanging me
up on Aurora right now.

-taylor
taylor@xxxxxxxxx