Peter Smith

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made some edits, so we're official in edit mode here! yay progress

I don't actually think the /performance trick on gov.uk works any more .... not sure why, but it appears to have been disabled. Anyhow, there is an annual requirement for...

In recent usability testing by @neoinsight, one participant did fail to find the tabs below the first in mobile view. But not enough data yet to make any judgements. Will...

We're looking at this from a Canada.ca perspective also. See two cases: ToC for a long single-page doc (ie anchor links), and ToC for multipage docs where each link points...

thx @shawnthompson yes I did see early mockups - informative prev/next is definitely a promising pattern. @cfarquharson there are situations where displaying numbers is helpful to reinforce that there is...

Personally I'd separate out the writing from the design, make 'em two guides. two sides of the same coin, getting equal but distinct treatment. Call one a style guide and...

what about using an ellipsis to indicate many pages: 1 2 3 ... 61 62 thoughts?

The Canada.ca Content Style Guide has comprehensive guidance on tables: https://www.canada.ca/en/treasury-board-secretariat/services/government-communications/canada-content-style-guide.html#wp5-3 (and @RobJohnston is right - it is good style to put the units in to header)

So if I were to summarize, one solution = default state: use "normal" blue, no underline. hover, active states: no colour change, add underline. visited state: use "normal" purple, no...

... and @cfarquharson and @laurawesley and anyone else who I'm forgetting...