On Tue, Apr 06, 2010 at 09:26:14PM +0200, Claudio M. Alessi wrote: > 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.
"Back" is not related to levels/sublevels. It moves you to that page from where you moved to current. What you mean under "'..' link"? It moves you from /docs/unix/foo/bar/ to /? In unix it moves you to /docs/unix/foo/ > 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. Picture attached. Even better if you use Opera or some Firefox plugin and can see it as a tree. Or you can open history sidebar in Netscape/SeaMonkey/IE. > > 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. "Back" will move you to http://www.fidonet.org/ if you jumped to current page from http://www.fidonet.org/ > > 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. If "back" moves you to upper level, it is not same as above, it require only 1 click. If "back" moves you to previous page in your history, 1 click too. Adding links to main page in every document is like adding symlink to root/home directory in every directory of your filesystem. Almost nobody do it, why should we add these links in case of Web?
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