- From: John Foliot - WATS.ca <foliot@wats.ca>
- Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2006 07:03:40 -0800
- To: "'Alastair Campbell'" <ac@nomensa.com>, "'Andy Mabbett'" <andy_mabbett@birmingham.gov.uk>
- Cc: <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>, "'WebAIM Discussion List'" <webaim-forum@list.webaim.org>
Alastair Campbell wrote: > That has been proposed before, I can't find it now but I'm sure the > used to be an article about it (on WATS.ca?). It also used to be > implemented in Opera and Mozilla, but so few people used it I think > it's hidden away now. (It's called the "navigation bar" in Opera > under view > toolbars). More than proposed, it is part of the HTML spec [http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/types.html#type-links] Opera still support this (and my good buddy Chaals would love if you started using it/them), as does Lynx and some hand-held devices. Sadly, while the old Mozilla suite used to support this, it never carried through to Firefox. > > In it's included in the ARIA roadmap as the HTML equivalent to their > main XHMTL path: > http://www.w3.org/TR/aria-roadmap/#landmarks > (Another reason I was confused about what you were suggesting.) > > One important distinction is that this would go to another page: > <link rel="home" href="http://www.example.com/index.htm"> Actually, the relative link can be used for both internal page links as well as external links. > > Whereas the landmarks in ARIA are aimed at navigating within a page: > <link rel="x2:navigation" href="#bottomnav-links" title="Quick Links"> > http://www.w3.org/TR/aria-roadmap/#fig3 > > So long as the definition of keys moves away from the web developer, > I'll be happy... You and me both! JF
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