On Tue, Apr 06, 2010 at 08:50:07PM +0400, anonymous wrote: > You don't put same symlinks (to ~/doc, ~/src etc.) in every directory of > your filesystem. Most directories have only one link to them. Then why > should you put links to upper levels in every directory (and even file) > of your website? It makes sense. The '..' link allow you to directly go back to the upper level which, in the case of N sub-levels (e.g., docs/unix/foo/bar/mydoc) you have to use the browesr back feature N times (where N is the amount of sub-levels) while a '..' link allow you to switch to the upper level with only one click.
E.g. on http://werc.cat-v.org/docs/web_server_setup/apache2 you have to use the back feature 2 times to back to docs/ (and 3 for the home page) while with a '..' link you only have to click it once. > For example look at http://www.fidonet.org/ When you go to "What is > FidoNet?" or "How to Join FidoNet", there is no link back. You can press > "back" in your browser, edit URL or something like this. Well, same problem here: http://www.fidonet.org/old/genlinfo.html You need two clicks to back to the home page (unless you use gU with Vimperator or other evil stuff -- which I use :P); with the dot-dot link you only need one click. > Another example is http://www.mutt.org/ There is link "more news", > but no link to main page in http://www.mutt.org/news.html. Same as above. Regards, Claudio M. Alessi -- JID: smoppy AT gmail.com WWW: http://cma.teroristi.org
