[Sigia-l] Isn't that horse dead yet? (was: "meta-"navigation and before that: global navigation meta navigation)

[Eric Scheid]

On 6/6/05 3:03 PM, "Listera" <listera at rcn.com> wrote:

>> No, I'm not suggesting geography is determinant.
>> 
> You're not?
> 

I'm not. I even pointed out that it's qualitatively different from any
global navigation block which might be found at the bottom of the page.

> The only commonality among that motley crew of terms is pretty much the fact
> that they were bunched together artificially at a specific part of the screen
> real estate: bottom.

I've been avoiding casting the geography into the definition for the same
reason it would be foolish to say that Global Navigation is *always* found
at the top of the page, or even perhaps allowing for the exception of
finding the Global Navigation on the *left* hand side.

Global navigation can be found at the top, left, right, and I've even seen
it at the bottom of the page. To define it by it's common geography would be
wrong.

Similarly, I'd rather not prejudice any future design by being dogmatic
about geography for these bunch of links.

For all those link examples, most of them have an "about-ness" quality,
treating "site as entity" rather than "site as content". There will
undoubtedly be exceptions to confuse the weak minded ;-)

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