[gopher] Overbite: should the default for clicks be inline view?

Cameron Kaiser spectre at floodgap.com
Sat Feb 25 17:50:13 UTC 2012


> >> So I'm doing my usual code review on OverbiteFF. Here's a question for
> >> you
> >> all: should the default when you click on a link be to open it in inline
> >> view, or leave it alone and just use the + ? (In the first case, I'd
> >> repurpose
> >> the icon to the old behaviour.)
> > 
> > Personaly I found the inlineing a bit confusing, would it be possible to
> > have a sort of configuration option to select either behaviour ?
> 
> Okay I have to ask. What do we mean by "Inline view"?
> 
> Are we talking about the little plus sign icons to the left of the
> selectors where we have a choice of expanding say, a text file on that
> page or clicking on the selector itself to take us to the document itself?
> 
> If that's so, then aren't we doing *both* right now?

Yes. What I was considering doing is making the selector do the open-in-line
also, and only have the icon switch to the new document.

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