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


On 8/12/05, Austin, Darrel < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> > A breadcrumb is almost impossible to implement and still make sense.
>
> I agree. I've seen it done, but I've never seen it as much of a valid
> widget. As you state, the browser does this for you.
>
> So, in that sense, I suppose we can just assume a true breadcrumb trail
> is never actually used so we can use that term interchangeably. I simply
> prefer the term topic-path as, to me, at least, it's more descriptive of
> its actual purpose.

Full ACK, but breadcrumb is so much more widely known.

At least it is a terminology issue and not a straight mistake like "alt tag" :-)

I always wondered how Hansel and Gretel made sure none of the woodland
critters did not eat all the bread anyways.

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