Xooxia Development

OK, one of my favorite navigational schemes is the breadcrumbs list.  I like it’s ease of use in developing and presenting to the user, and I like the quick visual that it gives a user as to the hierarchical structure of the site.  One great little script that I ran across is called Cookie Crumbs.  Here is the script in a nutshell:

• This script keeps track of where a user has been via cookies read and written in JavaScript
• It is a true list of your trail history (much like the browser’s history, but you can see it visually)
  Most breadcrumbs scripts list the site hierarchy, not the true user history
• Easily configurable - the list is written to the screen through JavaScript and formatted with CSS
• Unobtrusive, if a user doesn’t have JavaScript enabled, they’ll not see the list at all

Take a look at the script here:  http://www.tomcoote.co.uk/JavaScriptCookieCrumbs.aspx

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OK, so I’m looking at my shelf and I notice that almost 1/5 of the books I have deal in CSS hacks.  I’ve spent many a night reading through these books trying to find the right hack to make a 1-pixel difference in a design for a browser that is being used by only 5% of my clients’ visitors.  Now, many of you will say that I shouldn’t go through so much trouble to accommodate just a few visitors and I would agree with you.   However, if I tell my clients that their site will look great in specific browsers, then I’m going to make sure that it does. Read the rest of this entry »

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