[Zope-CMF] Breadcrumbs

Jeffrey Shell jeffrey@Digicool.com
Mon, 4 Jun 2001 13:09:19 -0400


In the world of silly internet patents and copyrights, some dire 
warning was sent to us a while ago from someone claiming to have 
patented or copyrighted the name or concept of "breadcrumbs"...  :/

Just FYI.

On Monday, June 4, 2001, at 09:08  AM, Tres Seaver wrote:
>> Perhaps it would be a good idea to add it to the UrlTool -
>> e.g. <dtml-var "portal_url.breadcrumbs()">?  A bit more unwieldy to
>> type but it keeps navigational logic in one place and makes that
>> particular tool more useful ;-)
>
> I had rather not make the tool responsible for generating
> presentation;  instead, I might add a method to the URLTool:
>
>   def listBreadCrumbs( self, context ):
>       """
>           Return a list of folders up to the CMFSite, suitable
>           for generating a "breadcrumbs" list.
>       """
>       #...
>
> and then add a 'breadcrumbs' DTML method (or PythonScript, but
> I prefer to keep presentation in DTML or ZPT) which called it and
> built the presentation.
>
> Tres.
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> ===============================================================
> Tres Seaver                               tseaver@palladion.com
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