Posted by AGw. (Usenet) on 11/01/07 01:11

On Oct 31, 7:08 pm, "Jukka K. Korpela" <jkorp...@cs.tut.fi> wrote:

> Scripsit Bernhard Sturm:
>
> > We are currently testing a site: http://wwwt.ichschweiz.admin.ch/
> > which has a 'top of page' navigation at the bottom of each page
> > (pointing to an anchor at the top of the html-structure).
>
> Just remove those links. They are worse than useless. Every browser has a
> simple command to get to the start of a page on _any_ page. Duplicating that
> on a site-specific way just adds noise and pseudocontent and sometimes
> confuses people. The main page is so short that the link looks particularly
> pointless there. More arguments:
> http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/www/totop.html

You make some reasonable points on your page there, but I don't
believe many surfers are aware of the more common keyboard
"shortcuts".

Perhaps I'm missing an obvious problem through it being late in the
day here, but what about using:
<a href="filename.html">Go to top</a>
as a solution, where "filename.html" is the name of the page upon
which the link appears? That way the focussing changes, the URL
doesn't get altered, and the page scrolls to the absolute top. Works
in Firefox and IE, and I can't see at quick glance that it would fail
in any other visual browser.


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AGw.

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