[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #21273: Automatically open help panel

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#21273: Automatically open help panel
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 Reporter:  ptahdunbar   |       Owner:
     Type:  enhancement  |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal       |   Milestone:  3.5
Component:  Help/About   |     Version:
 Severity:  trivial      |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  has-patch    |
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Comment (by helenyhou):

 +1 for the idea.

 Initial observations:

 * Seems like it'd be much more likely that the link would be to help
 located on the current screen, so it would need to work whenever, not just
 on page load.
 * Scrolling back to the top is a bit wonky in Firefox (I know, I'm the
 holdout, and it's not going to change)
 * Both the Screen Options and Help tabs are in the open state and are
 showing.

 I wonder if this would work better if the tabs and panels were fixed to
 the top below the toolbar. I feel like this was attempted before but
 abandoned for one reason or another. Would like to discuss trying it
 again. I think it would be especially helpful on longer screens so that
 you don't have to go back up to the top to find help/screen options - in
 fact, I wonder if that's why they are so little noticed in the first
 place. We would have to contemplate what that means for screens that are
 too short to show the tab to close the panel back up again.

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