History: Navbar improvement ideas
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Bootstrap has a mobile-first philosophy, so things are built to be usable on small devices first and then scaled up/modified to work well on larger displays. Tiki comes from the other direction, made for pc displays. The legacy site header carries that baggage. Approaches: * Use Bootstrap code (or equivalent) as closely as possible. ** It'll scale naturally for all displays (plus). ** This limits large-display content - how to have banner ads, non-menu/search/login content, etc.(minus). * Use legacy Tiki site header modules, etc. ** This displays fine in medium (maybe) and large screens. ** This is almost unusable in small displays as the site header take up the whole screen. * Coping strategies ** Use Bootstrap visibility classes to display modules appropriately for each screen size. *** Mostly this is to hide non-responsive modules in small views (plus). *** This means extra work at the admin-modules stage, and it's not documented yet (minus). ** Take advantage of the pagetop module zone to place a small-device menu that's hidden in larger views (currently in use at themes.to.o). *** An escape from what could be a mess in the collapsed site header. *** This means making a duplicate menu and adding it in admin-menus. ** ?? * Next steps ** Make navbar with "super-module fluffy" custom module *** Should produce the desired collapsible header (plus). *** Why is a profile/custom module needed to provide a basic feature? (minus) ** Should alternative menu display ideas be introduced (slidebars, etc.)? ** Is there a way to revise the code to get both a proper collapsing menu in small screens and the legacy site header contents/appearance in desktop view?