[pmwiki-users] Visble anchors (Re: FAQ Page Layout)

[chr at home.se]

On 4 Aug 2005, John Rankin wrote:

> On Thursday, 4 August 2005 3:12 PM, H. Fox <haganfox at gmail.com> wrote:
> >On 04 Aug 2005 14:51:35 +1200, John Rankin <john.rankin at affinity.co.nz> wrote:
> >> On Thursday, 4 August 2005 2:37 PM, H. Fox <haganfox at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> 
> >> >Here's another one:
> >> >
> >> >   http://www.w3.org/DOM/faq.html
> >> >
> >> >Notice a pattern?  This one uses a return-to-top link after
> >> >each question.
> >> >
> >> At the risk of banging on and on and on... PageTableOfContents
> >> has a (:toc-back:) directive for this :-)
> >
> >Heh.  Does it puree?  :-)
> >
> Not quite. Have I mentioned visible anchors? It can make all the
> anchors on a page visible, and show you the anchor name with a
> mouse-over.
> 
> § That to the left is an anchor mark
>   sitting out in the margin.

I've found visible anchors very convient when referring to people to a 
specific question/answer in a FAQ. The scenario is that someone asked you 
a question and you were nice and found them an answer. Now you use the 
visible anchor to get a link that points directly to the question in 
question. Finally you send this link to the person that asked the original 
question, and hope that the next time he'll read that FAQ before asking a 
new question :-)

So in short, I think the FAQ should have visible anchors. As for a link 
that goes back to the TOC, that's useful for those people who don't feel 
like pressing the HOME key... :-)

/Christian

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