ralphm's blog

Wednesday, 22 January 2003

Site Navigation

offline DJ writes about including navigation information to HTML pages by use of <link rel='...' ... > tags. His browser, Mozilla shows these navigational aids as icons in a toolbar. That's a nice concept, and really helps you move around a site.

I use Galeon myself, but Galeon doesn't show the links in a toolbar. However it has a paperclip tool that, when clicked on, shows a dropdown of all available links, including the ones Mozilla shows in the toolbar. But it also gives me links to the glossary, title index and a help page on formatting entries in DJ's Wiki. These items are also shown by Mozilla, but they are hidden in the Document and More folders on the Site Navigation Toolbar.

I think I like Mozilla's approach, and would like such a toolbar being added to Galeon. One thing I'm a bit puzzled about is this: what is the difference between top and first, and why did DJ go with top?