Re: Breadcrumbs proposal

On Sat, Jun 22, 2013 at 7:28 AM, Jarno van Driel <jarno@quantumspork.nl>wrote:

> Thanks for the explanation, nice to know. I'm new in getting a bit
> involved like this, so I just thought I'd put up the question.
>
> As for your question: 'Is nesting the markup an additional level with
> each breadcrumb link one of those things that publishers often get
> wrong?
>
> I don't know if in many cases it's the publishers that get it wrong
> but in my experience it's more that people are bound to the CMS they
> use. Unfortunately it often takes the big CMS's a long time to
> implement features like schema.org correctly?)


FYI, we're integrating schema.org in Drupal 8 (to be released end of the
year or beginning of 2014).


> and writing your own
> modules simply isn't part of the skill-set of the majority of folks.


> >From a semantic standpoint I'd prefer the nested breadcrumb. I think
> it's the most correct. But...
> Making it a nested breadcrumb makes it difficult to implement on
> current CMS's because their breadcrumb systems mostly are based on an
> ordered structure.
>
> Now if we somehow could get the right people at the big platforms
> (Drupal, WordPress, Magento and such) involved maybe they could give
> some useful input.
>

I'm a Drupal developer. Breadcrumbs are rendered as a flat list by default
in Drupal, and I agree that's easier than nested breadcrumbs from a markup
standpoint.


>
> In the end I'd like to get a 100% semantical correct breadcrumb but if
> we'd need to settle for a 80% correct breadcrumb, because that way it
> can be easier implemented on current systems, I'd be more than happy
> to except that as well if it means we can move ahead and finally can
> get it implemented.
>
>


-- 
Steph.