[rfc-i] new HTML version of publication queue lacks anchors

rjsparks at nostrum.com (Robert Sparks) Thu, 12 November 2015 20:00 UTC

From: "rjsparks at nostrum.com"
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2015 14:00:43 -0600
Subject: [rfc-i] new HTML version of publication queue lacks anchors
In-Reply-To: <AAE55EB9-B839-42FC-9673-E07E13CCA9DE@amsl.com>
References: <56277227.7050509@gmx.de> <AAE55EB9-B839-42FC-9673-E07E13CCA9DE@amsl.com>
Message-ID: <5644EFEB.7050306@nostrum.com>


On 11/12/15 12:57 PM, Alice Russo wrote:
> Hi Julian,
>
> This was intentional -- the anchors seemed no longer necessary as the queue page is a sortable table with one row per draft, rather than a long, unsortable page with several lines per draft. If the anchors would be useful, please let us know why.
I think Julian already gave you a good use case.

With the anchor you can give someone else a reference (as he quotes 
below) that causes the browser to immediately show the row of interest.

Without it, the recipient of any link you send has to do work to find 
the interesting row.

RjS


>
> Thank you.
> RFC Editor/ar
>
> On Oct 21, 2015, at 8:08 PM, Julian Reschke <julian.reschke at gmx.de> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> the previous version contained anchors so it was possible to directly link to an entry, such as with:
>>
>>   http://www.rfc-editor.org/current_queue.php#draft-ietf-httpbis-cice
>>
>> ...it appears this was left out.
>>
>> Best regards, Julian
>> _______________________________________________
>> rfc-interest mailing list
>> rfc-interest at rfc-editor.org
>> https://www.rfc-editor.org/mailman/listinfo/rfc-interest
>>
> _______________________________________________
> rfc-interest mailing list
> rfc-interest at rfc-editor.org
> https://www.rfc-editor.org/mailman/listinfo/rfc-interest