[Dev] HTML link tags and wiki navigation

[Heikki Toivonen]

I suddenly remembered that HTML has this nice link tag that you can use 
to aid in content navigation, and also that some browsers have support 
for that. For example, in Mozilla you can turn it on by going Views > 
Show/Hide > Site Navigation Bar > Show only as needed.

Now go to 
http://wiki.osafoundation.org/twiki/bin/view/Chandler/SecurityFramework

Notice that you suddenly have a new toolbar under your personal toolbar. 
It should have active links like Top, Up, and under More you will find 
Help, Search and a bunch of related documents and so on.

There are some web applications that produce the link tags 
automatically, for example Bugzilla and certain HTML documentation 
generation tools (you will see this while browsing the Python 
documentation, for example).

We could add some standard link tags to all wiki pages, like Help and 
Search, and each author can also manually add link tags to their 
documents to add arbitrary information.

Technically the link tag is only allowed in HTML head element, but 
browsers are pretty flexible in that (for better or worse).

More information about link tag here: 
http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/struct/links.html#edef-LINK

-- 
   Heikki Toivonen


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