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

Jens O. Meiert, Thu, 17 Oct 2013 21:54:59 -0500:
 
>> 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?
> 
> Well, this is a navigation menu, not a breadcrumb trail. As I’ve said
> on this thread and in aforementioned breadcrumbs post, I argue that
> breadcrumbs are not items of equal/comparable value (because:
> hierarchy)—but items in a navigation item typically are. For the nav
> menu on my site, for example, “Archive”, “Bio”, “Contact” are all
> equals in the site hierarchy. That’s not the case for breadcrumb
> trails.

This could be where the dog is be burried. It seems that
Steve supports Niels Matthijs’s comment on your blog: [1]

 “A breadcrumb represents a path through a tree, not the tree itself. 
The consecutive items make it clear we’re going step by step down the 
tree structure, so the path is just one-dimensional.”

Combine this with what Steve said,[2] (“the relationship of precedence
is provide by the use of the right arrows (thanks jens) to indicate
path”), and we have the current solution. 

And, btw, I don’t understand how “naked” a-elements inside a div-element
would represent this hierarchy any better – it seems then we would need 
this:

<ul>
    <li><a href=Top>Top</a>
        <ul>
            <li><a href=Sub>Sub</a></li></ul></li></ul>

Which I would not be opposed to, as such.

[1] 
<http://meiert.com/en/blog/20131003/breadcrumbs-in-html/#comment-237390>
[2] 
<http://www.w3.org/mid/CA+ri+VnaMER7PWp6dFT9sRk48-kSy+LgTbbpu=VWjTwQis4EgQ@mail.gmail.com>
-- 
leif halvard silli

Received on Friday, 18 October 2013 13:24:43 UTC