Comments on: Targetting Relevance in Long Web Pages with the CSS :target Pseudo-Class

By: Meitar

Meitar — Sun, 25 Dec 2005 15:31:10 +0000

Hi Ross. In this entry I was discussing CSS…are you sure this was what you wanted to comment on, rather than my post on breadcrumb navigation with PHP?

In either event; yes, you do need to maintain the .htaccess file, but if you use any sort of simple CMS mechanism, the mechanism can easily automate this process. WordPress is an example of such a tool that can auotmate the writing of .htaccess files.

However, if you want to use folders and subfolders, you can do that too. Use a rule such as this in your .htaccess.php
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /mydirectory/
RewriteRule ^(.*)\.php$ \1

Good luck with your redesign project!

By: Ross Geoghegan

Ross Geoghegan — Sun, 03 Jul 2005 17:33:10 +0000

This is near perfect implementation for a site I’m redesigning. Does the Abstraction of URL mean you have to maintain the .htaccess file – I was thinking of simply using folders and subfolders – easier for staff to maintain. However how can I trip the ‘.php’ off the end of the bread crumb trail?

By: Meitar

Meitar — Sat, 12 Mar 2005 10:35:13 +0000

The links still work, and the focus still changes to the proper point in the document. In other words, the technique degrades very gracefully.

However, the embedded or dynamically generated relevancy messages do not show up because of said browsers’ poor support for CSS. There is only way to work around that issue, which is total scripting, but this is a somewhat kludgy solution for what should be so easily maintainable via stylesheets. Possible (for the dynamic code), but not really necessary.

By: Nick Moscovitz

Nick Moscovitz — Sat, 12 Mar 2005 04:16:33 +0000

So, on those browser which are not fully CSS2 complient your links do not show up at all -

By: NIck

NIck — Sat, 12 Mar 2005 01:47:52 +0000

This is very good. Overcoming the linearity of reading so that it better matched the free associatiopn of thoughts is a huge undertaking. While hypertext techniques have been around for decades, none is really mimicking free association while maintaining a main thread satisfactorily. It takes EXACTLY the kind of considerations you mentioned. Please develop this a deep as you can go. There are for sure vast unexplored territories in the direction you are going. Not only with techniques, but more so conceptually, philosophically and logically. This is fascinating.