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
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 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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