All recent/decent browsers finally support navigation via link tags, except IE. This feature is pretty useful and fairly easy to implement.

Reading

• The link tag in (X)HTML by subotnik
• List of relationships by Websnob

Example

This screenshot shows Opera 7 with its row of link navigation buttons.
Note the pointer, which shows a keyboard shortcut to the search page.

Patch

To implement that for your surfers, change the header section of the view template as described below. This is optimized for Opera. which violates 2 recommendations from the pages cited above.

• Home, because it may be confused with browser's regular [Home]
• Up, because, umm, I don't really get that one...

<link rel=stylesheet href=/pub/twiki.css>
<link rel=Home       href=WebHome>
<link rel=Index      href=WebIndex>
<link rel=Search     href=WebSearch>
<link rel=Glossary   href=WebGlossary>
<link rel=Help       href=%SCRIPTURLPATH%/view%SCRIPTSUFFIX%/TWiki/TWikiFAQ>
<link rel=Up         href=%META{"parent" dontrecurse="on"}%>
<link rel=Copyright  href=WebCopyright>

-- PeterKlausner 03 Apr 2003

Open Issues

Author Link

Is there a way to refer just to the author of a page? See RevisionDataVariables. ...

Previous / Next Links

This would be most useful. Unfortunately, that's also the hardest. Maybe the NavbarPlugin could deliver this information? ...

Cross Browser Compatibility

Depending on your user population, we might need to double links for buttons like [Home] etc. ...