Re: Remove stickiness from navigation bar in docs

> On Oct 22, 2018, at 5:07 PM, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
>
>> On 2018-Oct-19, Jonathan S. Katz wrote:
>>
>> On 10/19/18 5:50 PM, Andres Freund wrote:
>
>>> You're quoting me saying things about the shout box - but I think you're
>>> talking about the fixed navbar?
>>
>> Probably. But I do think we should have the shoutbox there both for
>> consistency and the fact the majority of our traffic goes to the docs.
>> The shoutbox does provide a reference for when a new release comes out,
>> and if vast majority of people are going to pg.org to view our docs, it
>> provides a nice place to let people know when there are updates.
>
> I too think the doc pages could stand some additional improvement.  I'm
> okay with seeing the shoutbox the first dozen pages I visit, but after
> that it's annoying, and by the hundredth time I see it it becomes
> infuriating.  Why can't I dismiss it?

That’s a good idea. We could store that it has been dismissed in a cookie and then have it
reappear when a new announcement comes out. That should not be too difficult to create a patch
for.


> As for the list of unsupported versions, I'm not sure that its
> omnipresence has a lot of value.  Would it work to have a list of
> supported versions plus devel (one line -- we could say "Current (11),
> 10 / 9.6 / 9.5 / 9.4 / 9.3 / 12dev" since it should be pretty obvious
> that "12dev" is development), and have a link "other versions" that
> shows the rest of the list?

Yeah, and perhaps move the list of unsupported versions to the bottom of the page?

> On mobile, I think it would work to have the version selector integrated
> in the navbar (which has plenty of space), as another dropdown.

Not a bad idea - it may take some work given the nav bar is a global component. Will think on it.

Jonathan