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jQuery Fundamentals: A major revamp for the online jQuery guide

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Re: jQuery Fundamentals: A major revamp for the online jQuery guide

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Looks great. I think you could further improve navigation by adding a section menu for each page like Bootstrap docs do (on the left): http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/getting-started.html

For example, on http://jqfundamentals.com/chapter/traversing-manipulating, you could have the top level headers in a sidebar nav that uses the affix plugin. You can get a bit lost since the pages are quite long. This would help quickly see all the sections and jump between them.

Re: jQuery Fundamentals: A major revamp for the online jQuery guide

#4

Looks great. I think you could further improve navigation by adding a section menu for each page like Bootstrap docs do (on the left): http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/getting-started.html For example, on http://jqfundamentals.com/chapter/traversing-manipulating , you could have the top level headers in a sidebar nav that uses the affix plugin. You can get a bit lost since the pages are quite long. This would help…

Thanks for the suggestion. Look for it in a future version!

Re: jQuery Fundamentals: A major revamp for the online jQuery guide

#5

Looks great. I think you could further improve navigation by adding a section menu for each page like Bootstrap docs do (on the left): http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/getting-started.html For example, on http://jqfundamentals.com/chapter/traversing-manipulating , you could have the top level headers in a sidebar nav that uses the affix plugin. You can get a bit lost since the pages are quite long. This would help…

Another note on the nav: when I zoom in on android there's a float element that covers a lot of content. Makes reading difficult.

Re: jQuery Fundamentals: A major revamp for the online jQuery guide

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The original version of this guide was a great introduction to jQuery for me (thanks!). Overall this looks like a much easier and more interactive way to go through the material.

I do have one comment, though: After reading through the single-page guide, I went back to it for a few weeks and often used Ctrl-F to find specific references to things I couldn't exactly remember how to do, and I don't see a way to search similarly in the new version. Ideally the improved navigation should eliminate the need to use such a blunt tool, but I still wonder if someone might want to come back and find something, remembering some random syntax but not remembering where it was. Not sure exactly how you would fix that in the new guide, or how serious it is, so it's just some food for thought.

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