Comments | jamesd: Nav strip silliness

jamesd

Nav strip silliness

Jul 12, 2006 03:59

LiveJournal introduced a new navigation strip, providing the user viewing a page with options for navigation. Oddly, even though it provides user-specific navigation, any other user or community can override the viewing preference of the person viewing the page, forcing them to get the navbar if they have turned it off. Nice example of a leak of ( Read more... )

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xb95 July 12 2006, 04:41:13 UTC

I wanted it on for everybody all the time.

xb95 July 12 2006, 12:20:18 UTC

But some of us don't want it taking up our screen real estate. I tried it when it first came out. and realized that it did not fit the way I use LJ. (I always have a Firefox tab with my journal, another with my friends page, and I have a quick button for the portal when I want to post. So the nav bar was redundant.

That is the kind of interface item that I, the viewer, should control, not you, the author.

xb95 July 12 2006, 15:45:07 UTC

I discount your opinion because you choose to remain anonymous. Have the balls to post with your name if you really want your opinion to carry some weight.

jamesd July 12 2006, 13:42:56 UTC

Having experimented with it a bit I concluded that it added no value for me and consumed screen real estate to deliver that lack of value, so I want it gone, always. Might be more useful for a newcomer to LiveJournal.

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