cascading / trail navigation

Hi.

This is how the "breadcrumbs" for the file explorer in vista works. I have
no studies for you on this though but wanted to point out a current usage of
the concept.

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On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 13:49, Milan Guenther <milan at guenther.cx> wrote:

> I am looking for examples and studies on cascading navigation concepts
> on web sites, using columns to separate the hierarchical layers. Such a
> navigation combines a "breadcrumbs" / "path" with a menu.
>
>
> Example (with a monospaced font):
>
> About us >> Intranets >> Employee Portals >> Overview
> Services >> Extranets >> »Customer Portals >> »Technical Data
> »Solutions >> »Portals >> Process Portals >>
> Mobile >>
>
>
> So the (breadcrumbs) path in this would be
> Solutions > Portals > Customer Portals > Technical Data
> with the alternative options still visible for each selected layer
>
> I found the pattern in just one library, at welie.com:
> http://www.welie.com/patterns/showPattern.php?patternID=trail-menu
>
>
> Personally I like this concept, but there aren't much sites using it.
> I found only one study form a German student implying it performs very
> well compared to other (dropdown, tree, ...) concepts in terms of
> clarity.
>
> But it could also turn out as misleading if the users do not understand
> the "layering" concept.
>
> Do you know sites using this kind of menu design, or (even better) other
> resources about its performance?
>
> thx in advance,
> milan
>
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Milan Guenther has asked:

>
> Do you know sites using this kind of menu design?
>
>
MSDN website:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa338218.aspx

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