Nature Header Improvements

[alexkilgour]

Some improvements need to be made to the nature header component:

• The template has significant differences from the one in use on oscar
• Remove explicit dependency on global-expander by moving expander to the global-javascript
• Can we remove the dependency on utility classes?
• Relies on search component that only exists within Oscar - is this used anywhere else? can it just be merged into the header
• Not sure the way keylines are handled works with a dynamic template. Needs investigation.
• Logos currently linked from media.springernature.com. Is this the best way? should this live inside the component?

[benjclark]

Re the relationship with c-search... this needs quite a bit of thought.

c-search is used in various places on nature.com, including:

• Nature Header search popup
• Journal homepages where users can search the journal
• Nature search page / search results page
• Nature advanced search page

c-search provides some basic styling of form elements (buttons, inputs, labels, selects) as well as providing some flex layout styles.

Should these search forms just use Global Forms instead? Why does c-search need to exist?

Afterall, the places where we have implemented it all look fairly different:

This doesn't necessarily need to be resolved as part of this Nature Header issue. But we need to understand what we want to do long term for this and how it affects Nature Header and how we should deal with Nature Header's dependency on c-search at this time.

One of the current main issues here is that c-search only exists in Oscar which is problematic for any other project consuming Nature Header

[ricky-lau]

One of the current main issues here is that c-search only exists in Oscar which is problematic for any other project consuming Nature Header

I'd like to take out the styles used in c-search and move them into nature-header to resolve this problem. If theres no objection then I'll start that soonish.

[sturobson]

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