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From: steven
Date: Feb 8, 2011 2:06AM

Hi Adam,

I'm intrigued by your comment that "The problem with the second solution .
is that using href with same page link . makes the page jump to that
location. The project managers all refuse to work with it."

Being that the anchor jump is one of the few browser consistencies that
still remains today, is this really a problem that people refuse to work
with!? Has anybody got a resource that actually backs this up? I ask,
because I had toyed with animating page anchoring, but I personally found it
to be unexpected for users (though visually more interesting) and slower to
get to content than the standard jump (in this day and age I am in both
minds, as on the one hand people want things faster, but people also love
slower GUI effects such as evident in Apple products).

Regards,

Steven