- From: David Carlisle <davidc@nag.co.uk>
- Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2013 16:02:08 +0100
- To: Reinier Kaper <rp.kaper@gmail.com>
- Cc: "public-html@w3.org" <public-html@w3.org>
On 17/09/2013 15:46, Reinier Kaper wrote: > That's just what breadcrumbs are, unless you want to argue that > breadcrumbs should have a different meaning. In which case we'd probably > need to make this a wider discussion and not refer to it as breadcrumbs > anymore, but paths in general ;-) Well sometimes. The term breadcrumb of course originally (and still sometimes) refers to the other usage of being an indication of the navigation route taken to the current page, cf Hansel and Gretel: the path through through the wood was probably more linear than hierarchical in nature. Wikipedia gives both usages: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breadcrumb_%28navigation%29 Breadcrumbs typically appear horizontally across the top of a web page, often below title bars or headers. They provide links back to each previous page the user navigated through to get to the current page or—in hierarchical site structures—the parent pages of the current one David ________________________________________________________________________ The Numerical Algorithms Group Ltd is a company registered in England and Wales with company number 1249803. The registered office is: Wilkinson House, Jordan Hill Road, Oxford OX2 8DR, United Kingdom. This e-mail has been scanned for all viruses by Star. The service is powered by MessageLabs. ________________________________________________________________________
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