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Contains current page?

Does a breadcrumb typically contain the current page? Is there a convention? 74.121.2.213 05:32, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

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Poor name

"Breadcrumbs" is an unfortunate metaphor. Hansel and Gretel used stones in their earlier successful navigation; when later they were forced to use breadcrumbs, these were eaten by birds and they got lost. Who coined the term? Is it too late to change it to "pebbles"? jnestorius 12:32, 4 May 2006 (UTC)

The original usage was in Bernstein, Mark, and Linda Thorsen. Developing Dynamic Documents: Special Challenges for Techical Communicators 34th International Technical Communications Conference. Denver: 1987. Jakob Nielsen cites this in his review papers and in his Hypertext and Hypermedia. See also , . In fact, the original proposal embraced the idea that breadcrumbs should fade with time, just as "visited link colors" (another manifestation of breadcrumbs) return to normal link colors after a span of time has passed. Revisiting a page you have recently seen in semantically and experientially distinct from revisiting a page you saw months or years before. MarkBernstein 19:18, 29 January 2007 (UTC)