Re: [orion-dev] HTML Outliner

[John J Barton <johnjbarton@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 8:39 AM, Libing Wang <Libing_Wang@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Just installed it. Looks really nice.
>From my point of view, not limited to this one, it would be nice to support expand/collapse on hierarchical view.

Wouldn't it be easier and better UX to implement this as folding editor for HTML?

I think the challenge for the outliner is to detect and encode common logical organizations of HTML. HTML is *not* a simple tree to the dev. Some branches are much more important. Find the important branches and show them in the outliner.

jjb