User talk:Jack McKalling/sandbox

Version nav

 * "Rework the version nav template with more intuitive arrow links"

What are your ideas for this? I could help implement it. – Nixinova   23:41, 11 February 2019 (UTC)
 * Thanks a lot for the offer! I wanted to change how the next/prev, parent and nextparent/prevparent parameters (the arrow buttons) work. They are incredibly confusing and I can't possibly figure out how to use their values. I tried many times but I kept using them wrong. I wanted the navigation to link between each and every release, including snapshots, pre-releases and full releases, and not "cap" each full release to just the related sub-versions. That the small next and prev arrows would move forward/backward simply to the closest version, regardless of what type it is, and the big arrows to the closest full release version. Such that the "next" button would link 18w32a&rarr;18w33a, 1.13.1&rarr;1.13.2-pre1 (not 1.13.2), and 1.13-pre10&rarr;1.13&rarr;18w30a (instead of just "stopping" at pre10). And such that the "nextparent" button would link 1.13-pre10&rArr;1.13 (not 1.13.1) and 18w30a&rArr;1.13.1 (not 1.13.2). In other words, everything in chronological release order. I also think the current &lArr;&larr;&rarr;&rArr; layout is not intuitive. I was thinking of something more of a left/right and up/down orientation but I'm not sure yet. Lastly, I'm not sure exactly how this idea could be tested/sandboxed. – Jack McKalling [ Grid Book and Quill.png Grid Diamond Pickaxe.png ] 00:40, 12 February 2019 (UTC)
 * Hmm, so maybe a two-row system? For example, on the page "14w03a",
 * {| style="text-align: center;"


 * ◄◄ 1.7.2  ◄ 1.7.10 &emsp;1.8&emsp; 1.8.1 ►   1.9 ►►
 * ◄◄ 1.7.10-pre4  ◄ 14w02a &emsp;14w03a&emsp; 14w04a ►   1.8-pre1 ►►
 * }
 * – Nixinova Nixinova sig image 1.png Nixinova sig image 2.png 03:36, 12 February 2019 (UTC)
 * – Nixinova Nixinova sig image 1.png Nixinova sig image 2.png 03:36, 12 February 2019 (UTC)