rustdoc: Improve the navigation experience #53961
Labels
A-rustdoc-ui
Area: Rustdoc UI (generated HTML)
C-enhancement
Category: An issue proposing an enhancement or a PR with one.
T-rustdoc-frontend
Relevant to the rustdoc-frontend team, which will review and decide on the web UI/UX output.
In the current situation, users navigates either with links from the overview, or by collapsing all descriptions and searching through what they want.
They both have their own problems:

And I often resort to "Find in page" which is bad on accuracy.
We need a better navigation system, and in either way we should ditch the collapse feature. I have two ways in mind:
To compare these two approaches, sidebar is more suitable for continuously navigating items without caring the backstack, while the brief is more like "navigate, read, back, navigate, read, back".
Related: #39952
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