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My proposed implementation of the edit-page interface uses tabs for the different views of a page http://groupserver.org/r/topic/4hVtEm16lczS5gwL615Sro This prompted a discussion about where else tabs could be used. I suggest that the messages-area of a group. The messages area of a group is a bit of an oddity. If you try and access it you will get a not-found error http://groupserver.org/groups/development/messages/ However, within it lives the views of the topics and posts in the group. I propose that a page for the messages area is created that will show three tabs:Topics, Posts, and Summary of Posts. In discussion groups the Topics tab is open by default, in announcement groups the Posts tab is open by default. The link from the group context-menu would be renamed Messages (rather than Topics or Posts). The Messages page will replace the existing Topics, Posts and Summary of Posts pages. Tabs are an appropriate navigation-structure for this page as they are presenting different views of the same data, which is what tabs should be used for. Does this sound sane? I have been troubled by the page-structure in the messages area since my last redesign, and I am far happier with the proposed design above.
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