> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kevin Futter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Monday, 6 December 2004 3:29 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [WSG] Semantic Breadcrumbs
> And therein
> lies the rub: lists are one-dimensional, as you yourself point out
> elsewhere; breadcrumbs attempt to represent a path across the document
> hierarchy, whereas lists imply, and are taken to imply, that each element
> exists on the same hierarchical plane.

I completely agree with Kevin here. Breadcrumbs should be multi-dimensional,
but sitting in a list they are not.

The correct way of displaying breadcrumbs would most likely be nested lists.
But we probably agree that that is a waste of time and going a bit too far.
Personally I don't like treating breadcrumbs as normal text simply for the
reason that I don't like putting seperaters in between the links that are
read out by screenreaders. That's why I will probably stick to putting
breadcrumbs into lists, not because it is semantically correct, but because
I find it is an easy solution.




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