Joel de Guzman <joel@boost-consulting.com> writes:

David Abrahams wrote:

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Joel de Guzman <joel@boost-consulting.com> writes:

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Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2006 02:04:02 +0800 Reply-To: boost@lists.boost.org

Daryle Walker wrote:

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[I've added the main Boost list to this response so the MPL guys can see it.]

On 3/16/06 5:46 AM, "Joel de Guzman" <joel@boost-consulting.com> wrote:

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In the link I presented a while ago (http://snipurl.com/no8s), you might have noticed that the headings are clickable. Headings now link to itself. Again, this is borrowed from the MPL docs. This allows you to right click and copy the URL, for example (especially useful in deeply nested sections). You know where you are, anywhere.

So my final advice is to remove this mis-feature, and have the MPL docs purge it too.

Good points! Thanks for taking the trouble to explain in detail. Makes perfect sense, IMO. Not to me. Despite what Daryle says, the feature hurts nobody (or at least he hasn't explained why it hurts anyone), and once you discover it's there, it's very useful. If there were a more explicit way to implement those links without interfering with presentation, I might go for it, but I don't have any brilliant ideas and nobody else has offered any so for now, that's the best we can do.

It is very useful indeed. I can attest to that. It's very useful for me when I have to provide someone with information. I can simply right click and grab the URL of the specific section I wish to share.

How does right clicking help? If you go to http://www.boost.org/libs/parameter/doc/html/index.html#portability-consider... and right click you can copy a link to http://www.boost.org/libs/parameter/doc/html/index.html#id45.

The alternative would be to go back to the table of contents and grab the link there.

That's what you have to do, neh? You click once to get to the TOC, then you right-click the link at the top of the page. -- Dave Abrahams Boost Consulting www.boost-consulting.com