- From: csant <csant@csant.info>
- Date: Mon, 09 Aug 2004 07:45:05 +0200
On Sun, 08 Aug 2004 17:36:17 -0400, Matthew Raymond
<mattraymond at earthlink.net> wrote:
>>> so suddenly turning <link> into a menu system could cause serious
>>> problems.
>> Like it becoming useful, perhaps. :-)
>
> How about the fact that existing <link> elements are not necessarily
> ordered in a way that the webmaster might want them in a menu because
> many browsers group specific kinds of <link> elements in a predetermined
> fashion? What if the webmaster defines them in the order of { Last,
> Bottom, Next, First, Previous, Top }? I wouldn't want it to show up in a
> menu like that. But in current browsers, there's absolutely no reason
> not to put items in random order.
This is true only for graphical browsers - keeping text browsers (and,
possibly, speech browsers) in mind gives a different scenario: you might
want to order them by frequency of use (you need to move your cursor step
by step to the next <link> item, thus one keyclick for each step), and the
order might well be 'next previous bottom first last top' - but in any
case, having 'next' at the beginning is very user-friendly.
/c
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Received on Sunday, 8 August 2004 22:45:05 UTC