On 28-Jan-07, at 3:15 AM, Omar Abdel-Wahab wrote:
I'd like to outline some point: DokuWiki is using two ways breadcrumb, one is the current user's navigation history, which might only list the last 5 pages and a second breadcrumb which resembles Drupal's breadcrumb. I think I'd go for provding an additional argument(s) to hook_menu.
Ugh, I hate that. I find that so utterly confusing: sites with magical shifting breadcrumbs. I also hate when the breadcrumb trail magically switches depending on how I find a page. (Home >> Tags >> Foo sometimes, Home >> Forums >> Foo) other times. To me, the breadcrumb trail is the site author's indication of where a given page belongs in the structure of the site. This is really helpful when you end up at a random page via Google. They also help find more pages like the one I'm looking at. Tags, on the other hand, are a user's representation of where they think that page belongs. They are two totally different things. I'll use an example from Amazon.com to illustrate: http://www.amazon.com/Hissing-Fauna-Are-You-Destroyer/dp/B000KWZ94U/ sr=8-1/qid=1169998791/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/102-1200809-9979317? ie=UTF8&s=music Now if you scroll to the bottom of the page (no idea why this is at the bottom), you'll see a breadcrumb trail of: # Styles > Alternative Rock > Indie & Lo-Fi > Indie Pop > General This is how Amazon.com thinks this album fits in relation to other content on their site. If I click "Indie Pop" I'm taken to a listing of other albums like the one I'm looking at (in fact I own about half of those on the front page ;)). This is very useful. Now let's say instead I click the tag "weird," which is how a user has categorized it. This brought up a bunch of completely unrelated crap, including a George Bush Kennebunkport art poster, which I am very unlikely to purchase. ;) Really, my only major beef with Drupal's breadcrumbs is that the current page (non-linked) is not included. See http:// developer.yahoo.com/ypatterns/pattern.php?pattern=breadcrumbs However, I guess that's why we want to make it all configurable. ;) +1 for token module in core, +1 for core providing some kind of 'breadrcumb api' that can be expanded with contrib modules with an "80% solution" implemented as the default. -Angie