UI Suggestion: Heading Menu

[Scott McDowell]

One of the things I like about html is that, when used correctly, it
allows you to present the content in so many different ways.  So far
there are only two ways I can think that we use this content so far, to
display webpages and to index webpages for searching.  Here is an idea
I'd like to see:

Why not create a menu of some sort that shows the contents of all the
heading tags (<h1>,<h2>,<h3>...) in a document and let's you scroll the
window directly to that part of the page. 

BBEdit has a feature like this.  You can try it out buy clicking the
function menu icon (it looks like '?' or '&fnof;') when viewing an html
document.

This menu could be displayed in several ways:
    * in a separate window (I don't really like this idea)
    * in a Drawer (I love these new Drawer things by the way!!)
    * or in a menu:
        * a contextual menu?  maybe, I don't know though, the
          contextual menus in OmniWeb already seem to be full
          of information (good information) and I would rather
          not add bulk to that menu
        * the title bar? you could apple-click the title bar
          to display this.  I don't like this idea because
          I would rather put a path menu here (see my previous
          message 'UI Suggestion: title bar')
        * in the menu bar?  sure but where?
        * button on the toolbar? i don't like this idea either
          because I almost always hide my toolbar (see my next
          message 'UI Suggestion: hide toolbar') and would prefer
          quicker access to it.

Basically I don't know where to put the menu, but I'm no software
designer.  Maybe someone else out there can come up with a good place to
put this.

On another tip: maybe this same menu could be used to display any link
tags.  (What am I talking about?? <http://www.euronet.nl/~tekelenb/WWW/LINK/>)

Scott McDowell
http://www.slowchildren.com