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From: Chris Heilmann
Date: Feb 18, 2005 6:25AM


>
> Chris wrote:
>> If you see different pages in a site as a piece of paper, LINK
>> information
>> is the staples holding them together, or in your case, the headlines
>> you
>> print on each paper.
>
> I guess I need to work with it for more than just the half hour before
> starting regular duties. If I use LINK, I'm not seeing how a page
> beginning with an that says "Southside Streets" tells the user a
> previous page also said the is "Navigating American cities" and
> the is "Chicago". Including those at the top of the page, styled
> if you prefer, would clearly point out the hierarchy and could include
> .

For this document "Southside Streets" is the main headline , and should be
the H1. "Chicago" would be the "up" document.



http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/struct/links.html#h-12.3

Your approach is much like creating breadcrumbs via headlines, and that is
just not the idea of them. What if you had a navigation with 6 levels (Ok,
your Information Architecture would be abysmal for starters)?

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