Re: [orca-list] Headingslist, and Linkslist updated, plus navigation menu

[Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis <bhawkeslewis googlemail com>]

Hermann wrote:
> Rich Caloggero wrote:
> > OOPS, I guess I didn't send the link ...
> > http://www.mit.edu/~rjc/navigationBundle.xpi
> >
> > I'd like to hear other's thoughts on a treeview containing the 
> > headings. My
> > personal preference is that it causes me to do too much navigation and
> > takes
> > my focus away from actually digesting the content of the headings
> > themselves. I find that just getting site authors to use headings is a 
> > big
> > enough challenge; to actually expect that the heading levels will follow
> > some logic is perhaps asking too much. I find that some people will use
> > heading levels for type size, for instance. Wired does it: if you look at
> > their homepage, they have category names wrapped in h5, then one or two
> > headlines under that category wrapped in h1. This makes little semantic
> > sense, so the only thing I can surmise is that they want the headline to
> > stand out more than the category name.
> The fact is, that headings of level 1 are not shown, neither with title, 
> nor with their level number. I think knowing the level is sometimes 
> useful, especially when I know which level the needed headings have. For 
> example: The feeds of my daily newspaper show the article's headlines on 
> level 3. So I mustn't care about other headings.
> But besides that the display of the headings and the navigation is not 
> very reliable. I think someone already wrote about it.
> Furthermore it seems that the extension slows down the performance of 
> Orca in FF.

From a brief look at the code

> And a few additional observations:
> I've tested your extension under Windows with Jaws and FF 2.x, and it 
> behaves totally different:
> No hotkey works. The invokation of the links and headings list is much 
> faster than in Linux.
> So at the current stage of development we cannot think about the 
> replacement of Orca's structural navigation.
> Hermann
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