[Ids-devel] Page links (was: help test...)

[Ashley M. K. <as...@pc...>]

    After doing some thinking, I thought of another way of displaying
those page links.  Keep in mind that I'm basically going after sites
that have some large number of pictures, which in turn generate a large
number of page links.  This won't have any effect on people with small
numbers of links.

    gaps = Npages / 15 (slots) -5

    I say -5 because I want to add, my current page, plus two under, and
two over in the resulting list.

    What will this do? Let's say I have a section that's generating 154
pages, and I'm currently viewing page # 53:

    154 / 15-5 -> 15 (we'll round down), so now my "gaps" will be:

    1, 16, 31, 46, 61, 74, etc.

    We insert page 53 where it should be in the list, plus two down, and
two up from there, and we add the first, and last page also.  The
result:

1, 16, 31, 46, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 61, 76, 91, 106, 121, 136, 151, 154



    You want to know how my screwed up mind came up with this?  Let's
assume you have in your hand, some very very fine calibrated ruler, with
the little lines marking every inch, half inch, quarter inch, 1/8, 1/16,
1/32, 1/64, etc., etc. on it, but the smaller the scale, the smaller the
letters.  Now I'm going to give you a magnifying glass to look through.
What do you see?  What's right in the middle you can see just fine, down
to the very fine print, but as you look to the side, you can't see the
same (small) scale anymore, just the one above that, or a few scales
above that.  It's kind of like looking through a water bubble sitting on
a page of a book.

    Think of the above links the same way.  As you near your current
page, the numbers are more granulated, but as you move away, the "gaps"
become bigger.

    Sick thinking, huh?  :)

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