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Archive idea: same-page links to each section

Broken link? Feature request? Anything related to the Spectrum Computing website here.
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equinox
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Archive idea: same-page links to each section

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SC archive entry pages are made up of themed "boxes" for General Info, File Downloads, Magazine References, etc. as seen here for example:
https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/entry/7 ... I_Megademo

A user will often know what they want (maybe just the downloads, or just the reviews), so it would be nice to have a way to jump there quickly.

Wikipedia articles solve this problem with the hierarchical table of contents, e.g.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZX_Spectr ... lecheckbox
...which is the right idea, I think, though of course too large for our purposes. Perhaps we could have a small (horizontal?) list of section links at the top of the page. Clicking a link would jump down to that section. This is easily implemented in HTML using fragment anchors:

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<a href="#somewhere">jump there</a>  . . .   <p id="somewhere">here you are!</p>
In addition, or alternatively, it might be nice for the section boxes to be collapsible (put a little ▼ arrow at the top right) to hide those that do not interest the user.
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Re: Archive idea: same-page links to each section

Post by PeterJ »

We can see if there is much interest in this idea @equinox, then I can chat with @4thRock (who did much of the design for us) to see if it's possible.
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