Feedback on javadoc UI changes

[Henry Jen]

Prefer #3

Works on Mac with Brave and Safari with symptom Mauricio mentioned.

The blue border on search is and close icon is overlapped with Brave, but that’s nit-picking.


 

Cheers,
Henry


> On Oct 9, 2019, at 10:29 AM, Hannes Wallnöfer <hannes.wallnoefer at oracle.com> wrote:
> 
> The javadoc team is considering changes to the UI of javadoc generated pages, specifically the behaviour of the top navigation bar and navigating to anchors within a page. Since this would affect all JDK users we thought it was a good idea to present/discuss the alternatives here on jdk-dev. 
> 
> The feedback we are looking for:
> 
> - What do you prefer for scrolling up and down a page? Do you find the moving parts useful or distracting?
> - Which version is best for navigating to an anchor within a page (e.g. member search or internal links)?
> - Do you experience any technical problems with your particular browser?
> 
> Here are the three versions:
> 
> Version 1 is the conservative fix, it retains the fixed navigation bar, changes are mostly under the hood:
> 
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~hannesw/8223378/api.00/
> 
> Version 2: When scrolling down, the navigation bar slides upwards and disappears. When scrolling back up or starting to type for a search, it slides back in again.
> 
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~hannesw/8230852/api.04/
> 
> Version 3: Like version 2, but the part of the navigation bar that contains the search box and page-local links always remains visible. There’s an arrow symbol on the left to make the full navigation bar reappear.
> 
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~hannesw/8230852/api.03/
> 
> Hannes
> 

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