The major objection that I (and colleagues here) had to the original
Documents/Manuals menu was not that we REALLY wanted configurable menus
per se, but that, if there were GOING to be menus, we need to configure
them. I totally agree that menus are a Bad Thing; my main objection is
that different browsers will not see the same list of documents; we
should present our users with a consistent view of WWW, and it doesn't
help them to have docs which are only easily accessible from one browser.
I would be happy to see NO "warp to this URL" menu options or buttons
other than Home on all browsers. Possibly a help button, but even so,
let the local system manager decide on whether to have it there, which
URL it points to etc. If the local system manager wants NO links
outside actual documents, respect that, and allow her to turn all such
options OFF. It's even worse that the menu was so US centered. The
US-UK link is still an expensive resource, and I don't want my users
reading man pages in Ohio or Indiana when the definitive man pages are
here at Cranfield.
So, Nat, if you want a "Documents" button pointing to a configurable
URL, fine, but I really don't want it! Marc, allow me not to have it.
Peter Lister p.lister@cranfield.ac.uk
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Cranfield Institute of Technology, Voice: +44 234 754200 ext 2828
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