- From: Matthew Ogston <matthewogston@hotmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2003 13:39:55 +0000
- To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
>Home | Media | Music || jazz | Pop | classic | soul | country >This is shorthand for a breadcrumb trail with sibling links >does anyone know of any live examples? My preferred use of breadcrumbs is the following: Home > Music > Jazz In this example, Home and Music are links to their respected pages, while Jazz has no link and is displayed with a stronger font to indicate that it is the current page. This is a method favoured by usability experts, Jakob Nielson and i think also Steve Krug, so it has good research behind it. A good example can be found here: http://directory.google.com/Top/Computers/Internet/Web_Design_and_Development/Accessibility/ (however, Google does not emphasise the last item in any way) Traditional breadcrumbs only display the logical route to the current page. Offering sibling links moves away from this model and may confuse some users. If you are going to offer sibling links then maybe just offer them as separate options underneath and away from the breadcumbs? Including sibling links within the breadcrumbs just duplicates links that may otherwise be found in your main/sub navigation? Regards Matt _________________________________________________________________ Express yourself with cool emoticons http://www.msn.co.uk/messenger
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