Re: [PATCH] gitweb: tree view: eliminate redundant "blob"

From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Sep 27, 2006, 06:42 UTC
Message-ID: <7v64f9hku2.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <20060926213236.79160.qmail@web31815.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

Luben Tuikov <ltuikov@yahoo.com> writes:

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>> And "invisible links" _especially_ if the link is not convenience only
>> (i.e. it is not provided clearly as link somewhere else) is so called
>> "mystery meat navigation" and is one of the most common mistakes in
>> web development.
>> 
>> And is not as if "plain |" takes much space...
>
> I think you would agree that gitweb is quite different than what is
> commonly defined as "mystery meat navigation".
>
> Gitweb is very well thought out interface, and self-contained.
> There isn't much pondering about what and where to click, have newbies
> too.
>
> Think about the removal of the redundant "blob" and "tree" as database
> schema normalization if you will.
>...
> Either that or you can think of it as "shortening" the line.

Very well put. I think this and removal of redundant "tree" would be worthy changes -- it unclutters things.

If the only objection is that it is harder to realize that the remaining one (the other one that did not get removed by this redundancy elimination) is clickable, maybe that is what needs to be fixed.