[Sigia-l] Bread crumb navigation path

[Joe 10 Enterprises]

At 11:22 PM -0400 6/10/02, Ziya Oz wrote:

To be the way I like them to work you need 1 of 2 things:

1) A look-up list mapping directories to the text of the crumb. This 
can work server side or through javaScript.

2) some directory based text file which the automated script looks 
for in the directory it's working in. If it doesn't find it there, it 
hops one level out and so on. This way, if you want to modify the 
"crumb" of  a sub-folder, you can, otherwise it inherits the 
"crumb-text" of its parent. This works OK for server side and best of 
all for pre-rendered sites like produced in Frontier, which is the 
only place I ever built a satisfactory one.

The "trickle up" strategy is the same as Frontier uses for template 
cascading and inheritance. "keep looking 1 directory up until you 
find one", with the option of specifying any or all of the path at 
the page level for those special cases

/Joe

>"karl fast" wrote:
>
>>  Breadcrumbs are usually generated programatically on the server
>>  side.
>
>I like breadcrumbs, but here are two issues that often go unexamined:
>
>Where does it start?
>
>Relative to the homepage? User session start? A specific subsection? Search
>page? Also, is it always displayed? etc. On sites with sizeable depth, this
>could become problematic.
>
>How do you label them?
>
>Where do you get the labels for each crumb? If you're doing this
>programmatically, parsing out the page title or the file name may not always
>produce the most concise or meaningful label, within the context.


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