- From: David Woolley <david@djwhome.demon.co.uk>
- Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2005 20:50:51 +0100 (BST)
- To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
> navigation, Furnas showed that it is ideal to show only small views (a > relatively small number of choices) that the number of navigation steps I think the problem is that on commercial web pages, the bloat factor, with scripting etc. means that every distinct web page takes a long time to load, so putting a multilevel menu on the home page, once you've take the initial download time hit, is faster than having a true web (probably directed acyclic graph or tree) of navigation pages. On the other hand, using Lynx, on a site with clean HTML, spreading the navigation over multiple pages is very responsive, even on a 33K modem. (The other problem is that designers don't want to separate navigation from content, so every content page carries a navigation overhead - my own view is that the missed opportunity was for browsers to use link elements to find the immediate superior navigation page and automatically display it in windowed environments.)
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