Three things, all from how AMBOSS actually behaves rather than from a
description of it.
Row by row, two menus
The articles page is now the column browser itself rather than a grid behind a
"▼ All categories" toggle. Opening a topic opens its contents in the next
column, so the trail you took stays on screen and you can step back a level
without losing your place. Topics and the articles filed under them share a
column, because to a reader those are the same list — things this heading
contains — and only the icon separates a folder you can open from a page you can
read. Articles filed nowhere sit in the root column instead of being unreachable
for want of a heading. Under 720px it is one column plus a back button. Search
is a different question from browsing — you already know the name — so it still
answers with a flat list of matches.
Sections that collapse
An article is a reference you consult, so it opens as a contents page: headings
only, each expanding where it sits. A section may now sit under an earlier
top-level one (`parent_id` on the section JSON, absent on every article written
before this), which is how "ROS questionnaire" belongs to "Review of systems"
rather than standing alongside it. The contents rail nests the same way. Nesting
is refused where it could not render: its own parent, a parent later in the
article, a parent outside it, or a sub-section of a sub-section. A deep link
opens the target section and its parent — landing on a collapsed heading looks
like the link went nowhere. References are pinned last however they were
written; a reader scrolling for content should not hit the bibliography halfway
down.
Links that show where they go
`[[febrile-seizures]]` or `[[Febrile seizures|febrile-seizures]]` in article
prose becomes an in-app link that previews the target on hover: title, a couple
of sentences of actual prose with the markup taken out, and how much is there.
Following a link to find out whether it was worth following is the thing that
breaks a train of thought. Slugs, not ids, because that is what an educator
writes and it outlives a renumbering. One fetch per article for the life of the
page, a 350ms delay so crossing a link summons nothing, and no card at all on
touch, where a card would sit between the finger and the link.
Dead CSS for the old section modal and the always-open section block is gone —
nothing rendered those class names any more, and stale rules winning on source
order has bitten this page before.
146 backend, 152 frontend green.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01XeFQJXJTfHKTfbfsdxv57Z
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