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Subject:Re: HTML interface names From:"Jeanne A. E. DeVoto" <jaed -at- BEST -dot- COM> Date:Fri, 24 Jul 1998 15:53:09 -0700
At 12:19 PM -0700 7/23/98, Barry Campbell wrote:
>At 11:39 AM 7/23/98 -0700, Dave Swenson wrote:
>>Sorry to bother you all, but what's the name for the list of hyperlinks
>>that typically appears in a left browser frame?
>
>Wouldn't dream of castigating you. There is no obvious term for a
>cluster of hyperlinks. "Navigation bar" or "navbar" for short is
>one term in fairly common use in the Web community
I agree it's in semi-common use, but my impression is that it's used as a
more general term, covering all sorts of navigation tools, not just the
Left-Hand Index of Death. If Dave needs a term that specifically indicates
the latter, I think a little description will be needed - "typical
left-side navigation list", or something of this nature.
You could also create your own term ("navlist"?) and introduce it with a
definition. I suspect you'll end up going this way, since I agree with
Barry that there's no truly standard term for it.
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