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--- tc:breadcrumbs [2006/09/18 19:41] – fgm
+++ tc:breadcrumbs [2006/09/18 20:00] – additional usability references for terminal symbols fgm
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 ====== Breadcrumbs output by the taxonomy_context module ======
-  * what should their content be ?
+===== what should their content be ? =====
-Nedjo: Breadcrumbs in Drupal lead up to, but do not include, the current page. Assume a taxonomy like this:
+==== Nedjo ====
+/09/18: Breadcrumbs in Drupal lead up to, but do not include, the current page. Assume a taxonomy like this:
 <code>
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 We should probably look at the [[http://drupal.org/project/taxonomy_breadcrumb|taxonomy_breadcrumb module]] for comparison.
-Frederic: I'm a bit reluctant on this. One the one hand, ISTR that breadcrumbs in drupal are supposed to as you describe. OTOH, there's a [[http://drupal.org/node/64067|snippet]] to include the page title, which means it is felt as needed and, maybe more importantly, Steve Krug, in its oft-quoted "Don't make me think" book about web usability, insists on including and even boldfacing the last item in the breadcrumbs, and I think this advice is as good as most of the book (I hear even Dries has it). To illustrate this example I'd say that browsing "rice" should give
+==== Frederic ====
+/09/18 I'm a bit reluctant on this. One the one hand, ISTR that breadcrumbs in drupal are supposed to as you describe. OTOH, there's a [[http://drupal.org/node/64067|snippet]] to include the page title, which means it is felt as needed and, maybe more importantly, Steve Krug, in its oft-quoted "Don't make me think" book about web usability, insists on including and even boldfacing the last item in the breadcrumbs (p.75 1st edition), and I think this advice is as good as most of the book (I hear even Dries has it). Jakob Nielsen's "The art of simplicity" mentions it too (p.204 on the french edition), and he uses it for [[http://www.useit.com|hist own site]]. To illustrate this example I'd say that browsing "rice" should give
 [[/|home]] > [[taxonomy/vocabulary/1|food]] > [[taxonomy/term/1|grains]] > rice
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 to include automatic permalinks within the same logic
+==== Current situation ====
+  * using the latest patch by FGM on top of 4.7.3, the situation is mostly the one I describe, but this leads to a peculiar path on the taxonomy/vocabulary/<vid> page : the breadcrumb currently becomes :
+[[/|home]] > [[taxonomy/vocabulary/1|food]] > food
+  * in this situation, it should probably just be :
+[[/|home]] > food
+==== Other P.O.V. ? ====
+Any other ideas ?
+==== Vote list ====
+Add your preference to your choice:
+  * No terminal symbol (default drupal style)
+  * Terminal symbol (usability style)
+  * Setting to choose either