Re: 4.13.1 Bread crumb navigation - use of right angle brackets

Jens O. Meiert, Thu, 17 Oct 2013 15:34:55 -0500:
>>> it would help if you could elaborate on the decision to use lists. My view
>>> is that they’re not necessary.
>> 
>> What about what Niels Matthijs said, in a comment to your post: [1]
>> 
>> ]] When you don’t want lists, then at least use block elements to
>> differentiate between element. With inline elements a breadcrumb
>> becomes a single “sentence” which makes no sense at all. Each link is a
>> separate entity, not part of an inline expression. [[
> 
> That depends on what problem we’re trying to solve now. Is reading
> breadcrumbs as a sentence a problem? I couldn’t test but “Home [pause]
> Foo [pause] Bar” does not look like an issue to me.

That pause normally just means 'between two words'. And is it certain 
that each link is just a single word?

> Even without a
> pause a user likely understands what’s going on, which means there’s
> no reason to add more markup.

Let's say we *had* a <breadcrumb> element, isn't it likely that the 
links inside the element would be treated more like clickable list 
items, then?

Why do you, on your own web site (meiert.com), use a <ul> list for the 
navigation links on top of each page? Is it a problem if those links 
are read as a sentence?

In text layout - that is: in textual browsers and other user 
environments with few effects, I’d say that lists are practical as it 
clearly separates the lists, visually and semanticlaly. I am also not a 
screen reader user, but it seems to me that it could matter to such 
users if the link collection is read as a chain of word rather than as 
list of links.
-- 
leif halvard silli

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