[Sigia-l] breadcrumbs with added spice?

[Ziya Oz]

Juan Ruiz:

>From my research, not many sites have taken this approach.

For good reason.

> By having a fly-out menu on each breadcrumb, we are kind of creating another
> navigation menu, rather than keeping the breadcrumb as a mere navigation aid.
> It competes against the top or left hand navigation.

Breadcrumbs is linear/vertical whereas the dropdowns are nodal/horizontal.
It's a clumsy mix of two different cognitive approaches to navigation,
originally meant to serve two different needs. It's geeky...convenient if
you know how it works.

-- 
Ziya

It depends.
If it didn't, you'd be out of a job.