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From: Christian Heilmann
Date: Aug 12, 2005 11:12AM

On 8/12/05, Austin, Darrel < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> > First of all, and this is just my personal pet peeve, I don't
> > like the term 'breadcrumb trail' as it's a bit misleading. A
> > true crumbtrail will show you the path you've taken through
> > the site. A breadcrumb trail is designed to show you where
> > you are in the site hierarchy, regardless of the actual path
> > you took.
>
> I completely screwed that paragraph up.
>
> I meant to say:
>
> Breadcrumb = path you took
> Topic path = 'you are here' in the site structure

A breadcrumb is almost impossible to implement and still make sense.
Just adding up the browser history does not really make sense, as it
would feature pages more than once or restart once you hit the same
page the second time.

And I venture to guess that people use the back option of their user
agent for that.

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