[Sigia-l] Right Side Navigation

[Boniface Lau]

> From: Russ Unger
>  
> > > From: Donna Maurer
> > >  
> > > Huh? Why?
> > > 
> > > My blog (link below), and many others, have right nav. It's
> > > fluid and it works.
> > 
> > When your blog page is displayed inside a window not much wider
> > than that of the pictures in the blog entries, the navigation bar
> > will get pushed out of the window right border and be invisible.
> 
> I minimized her blog to go down to the smallest size possible
> without any l-r scrolling. That was at 696 pixels wide--and if she
> made a conscious decision based upon some sort of factual or
> personal preference that she wanted to support a minimum of 800x600,
> then she has managed to fall within that range.

Mind you, the blog page was cited by its author to demonstrate that
one could use fluid design to stick a navigation bar to the window
right border.

My reply pointed out that the navigation bar was not sticking to the
window right border as claimed.

Thus, it is beside the point whether the window width is within a
certain range when the navigation bar disappeared.


[...]
> That is, I chose consciously to NOT support the fraction of a
> percent of users on a PDA or other device that cannot reach a
> minimum of 800 pixels. I'm willing to bet that a lot of users do not
> consider these things, but I'm willing to bet that a lot of users on
> this, or similar lists, do.
>
> Sorry if this appears aggressive--it's not my intention, in the
> least. I want to support my side of this discussion and I can "feel"
> my frustration and it's not meant to be directed at any individual.

The focus of this thread, at least the part that I've participated in,
is on the implementation issues of right navigation bar. By not
reading into the thread whether right navigation bar should be used,
the feeling of frustration may subside.


Boniface