One thing I don't like about Tobi's navbar.pm is that the navigation bar is
hardcoded instead of computed from what's available. Obviously, this allows
for a very customised navbar (i.e. not making all pages show up, like
a map would). However, I think this could also be achieved through page
properties.
So imagine four pages A, B, A/C, and A/D, and these pages would include the
following directives, respectively
\[[!navbaritem navbar=main priority=3]]
\[[!navbaritem navbar=main priority=5]]
\[[!navbaritem navbar=main title="Something else"]]
\[[!navbaritem navbar=main]]
then one could insert \[[!navbar id=main maxlevels=0]] somewhere and it
would get replaced with (this being in the context of viewing page C):
<ol class="navbar" id="navbar_main">
<li><a href="../B">B</a></li>
<li><a href="../A">A</a>
<ol>
<li class="current">Something else</li>
<li><a href="D">D</a></li>
</ol>
</li>
</ol>
B would sort before A because it has a higher priority, but C would sort
before D because their priorities are equal. The overridden title is not used
for sorting.
Also, the code automatically deduces that C and D are second-level under A.
I don't think this is hard to code up and it's what I've been using with
rest2web and it's served me
well.
--[[madduck]]
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