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Re: The breadcrumbs have been served!
by Adam Hardy (struts)
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The motive website article is almost comprehensive, but they miss 2 points about
breadcrumb history menu:
firstly it's not redundant just because of the browser's history functionality -
when you go back in the browser and then choose a new link, you lose your
ability to go forward in the browser history again. A breadcrumb menu keeps your
history even if you retrace your steps.
secondly for that reason, there is no need to try to work out whether a page is
in the history already or not. Just let it appear twice or 3 times or however
many times.
But their point that breadcrumb history menus only having use in certain
situations is very true. I always wish that javadocs had it built in.
Mark McLaren on 14/10/07 16:05, wrote:
> Good stuff. Here is some feedback for you, free of charge. :)
>
> There is a slight issue with www.strutsschool.com (demo site for the
> breadcrumb plugin?). I think flipCoin should probably appear in your
> excludeMethods as accessing flipCoin through the breadcrumb link throws
> an exception. (the flipCoin breadcrumb is created by clicking on submit
> on the samples.action page).
>
> Also, I think you need to make it clear that this provides "breadcrumb
> navigation as transcript/history" rather than the "Homeward Path" style
> of breadcrumbs that is more prevalent. (Breadcrumbs is a most ambiguous
> term!).
>
> <http://www.motive.co.nz/glossary/breadcrumb.php>
> <http://developer.yahoo.com/ypatterns/pattern.php?pattern=breadcrumbs>
>
> My personal preference would be to display breadcrumbs in an unordered
> list with appropriate CSS styling. e.g.:
>
> <http://www.alistapart.com/articles/taminglists/>
>
> I was also thinking that a homeward path breadcrumb navigation
> implementation would be a good demonstrator for the S2 XSLTResult type.
>
> HTH
>
> Mark
>
> stanlick@... wrote:
>> Greetings --
>>
>> I finished the S2 breadcrumb plug-in and you are welcome to it and the
>> source code at www.strutsschool.com. I plan to cover the plug-in
>> process in
>> a chapter of the Struts 2 in Action <http://www.manning.com/dbrown/>
>> book
>> which is soon to be released. Until then, a few folks have asked if they
>> could get it sooner. Once you download the plug-in, be sure to see the
>> README.txt file contained inside the jar. This explains how to add and
>> configure the plug-in to your liking and sample HTML code for
>> displaying the
>> crumbs on your site.
>>
>> Please let me know of any issues that you encounter and I will accept
>> feature requests at $100.00 each or three for $250.00! :)
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breadcrumb history menu:
firstly it's not redundant just because of the browser's history functionality -
when you go back in the browser and then choose a new link, you lose your
ability to go forward in the browser history again. A breadcrumb menu keeps your
history even if you retrace your steps.
secondly for that reason, there is no need to try to work out whether a page is
in the history already or not. Just let it appear twice or 3 times or however
many times.
But their point that breadcrumb history menus only having use in certain
situations is very true. I always wish that javadocs had it built in.
Mark McLaren on 14/10/07 16:05, wrote:
> Good stuff. Here is some feedback for you, free of charge. :)
>
> There is a slight issue with www.strutsschool.com (demo site for the
> breadcrumb plugin?). I think flipCoin should probably appear in your
> excludeMethods as accessing flipCoin through the breadcrumb link throws
> an exception. (the flipCoin breadcrumb is created by clicking on submit
> on the samples.action page).
>
> Also, I think you need to make it clear that this provides "breadcrumb
> navigation as transcript/history" rather than the "Homeward Path" style
> of breadcrumbs that is more prevalent. (Breadcrumbs is a most ambiguous
> term!).
>
> <http://www.motive.co.nz/glossary/breadcrumb.php>
> <http://developer.yahoo.com/ypatterns/pattern.php?pattern=breadcrumbs>
>
> My personal preference would be to display breadcrumbs in an unordered
> list with appropriate CSS styling. e.g.:
>
> <http://www.alistapart.com/articles/taminglists/>
>
> I was also thinking that a homeward path breadcrumb navigation
> implementation would be a good demonstrator for the S2 XSLTResult type.
>
> HTH
>
> Mark
>
> stanlick@... wrote:
>> Greetings --
>>
>> I finished the S2 breadcrumb plug-in and you are welcome to it and the
>> source code at www.strutsschool.com. I plan to cover the plug-in
>> process in
>> a chapter of the Struts 2 in Action <http://www.manning.com/dbrown/>
>> book
>> which is soon to be released. Until then, a few folks have asked if they
>> could get it sooner. Once you download the plug-in, be sure to see the
>> README.txt file contained inside the jar. This explains how to add and
>> configure the plug-in to your liking and sample HTML code for
>> displaying the
>> crumbs on your site.
>>
>> Please let me know of any issues that you encounter and I will accept
>> feature requests at $100.00 each or three for $250.00! :)
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