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I'm particularly fond of the "::" delimiter. Not used often, but very classy in
appearance.
Kavi, on the other hand, uses the ">" delimiter.
Just FYI.
Mary
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Esrig, Bruce (Bruce) [mailto:esrig@lucent.com]
> Sent: Friday, June 09, 2006 6:02 AM
> To: Carol Geyer
> Cc: dita-fa-edboard@lists.xml.org
> Subject: [dita-fa-edboard] FW: Jakob Nielsen on breadcrumbs
>
> Hi Carol,
>
> Fortuitously, some information about breadcrumbs came my way.
>
> It appears that " > " may be most familiar as a delimiter.
>
> In Angela Coulter's survey in 2002, of the sites the use
> breadcrumbs, " > " was used almost half the time.
> The next most popular delimiters were down near 10%.
> " >> " was used on around 7% of the sites.
>
> So " >> " is pretty (personal opinion about a sequence of two
> printable characters), but people who see breadcrumbs are
> mightly likely to be familiar with " > ".
>
> More on breadcrumbs below.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Bruce
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bruce Esrig
> Sent: Thursday, June 08, 2006 8:24 PM
> To: esrig@lucent.com
> Subject: Jakob Nielsen on breadcrumbs
>
>
> As of 2003, Jakob Nielsen recommends ">" to separate levels
> in a breadcrumb list.
> http://www.useit.com/alertbox/991114.html
>
> As of 2002, Angela Coulter et al
> (http://www.angelacolter.com/site/breadcrumbs/) found that
> ">" was used on 47% of surveyed sites (see next sentence)
> that do use breadcrumbs. Only 17% of the commercial sites in
> the original Google Catalog beta (predecessor to
> froogle) used breadcrumbs. Location-based breadcrumbs were
> the most common.
> Path-based breadcrumbs and attribute-based breadcrumbs were
> much less common.
>
> Breadcrumbs were most effective right below the page title.
> In a small sample of observed users at sites that used
> breadcrumbs, 93% of users clicked on a breadcrumb at least
> once during a 15-task session requiring navigation to
> complete each task. More than 50% used breadcrumbs on
> multiple sites in the session. Users tended to trade off
> between the Back button and the breadcrumbs, trying to judge
> which would more reliably get them to where they wanted to be.
>
> References from "Alexandros Philopoulos"
> <philops@inpatras.gr> on IxDA Discuss.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Bruce
>
>
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