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Re: Current page - link or no link

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From: Jukka K. Korpela
Date: Dec 1, 2005 9:40AM

On Thu, 1 Dec 2005, Penny Roberts wrote:

> Actually the argument is the other way: some users get confused as to where
> they are (a bit like poor spatial awareness) and clicking on the link to the
> page that they think they are on orientates them.

Sorry, but that sounds unbelievable. Did you hear this as first-hand
knowledge from someone who actually describes her or his own experience?

If there is a list of navigational links and one of them is a link to the
current page, would this really help someone, as opposite to having the
name of the page among the links as non-link text? If you think that it is
not sufficient to make it non-link, you might consider putting an
explanation like "(you are here now)" after the text.

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Jukka "Yucca" Korpela, http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/