bgchen
April 5, 2019, 8:32pm
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Here are some older related threads:
Observable notebooks originally showed the code before the output, however, this led to issues with the output jumping away when the source was opened:
Consider an alternative way of editing cells.
The way things jump around on the screen when you click on the right side to edit a cell is disorienting.
Consider e.g. a pop-up editor so that the content Iām editing doesnāt move on the screen.
The simplest option is how editing in this forum (Discourse) works i.e. the editor opens at the very bottom.
Another example is what Gmail does when you click āComposeā. The editor opens as overlay, existing content on the page
A more sophisticated woulā¦
Eventually, the site was switched to the current ordering:
Dear Observers,
Weāre beta-testing a new UI for toggling cells open and closed, and pinning and un-pinning them.
The change:
Reverses the current internal ordering of a cell, so that now the cellās display lies above the cellās definition. This should make things feel less jumpy as you toggle a single cell open and closed.
Adds a toggle caret, which also replaces the current asterisk for anonymous cells.
It looks like this:
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If youād like to try it out, open your JS Developer Consā¦
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