T&G site architecture for nerds
by radioball - December 4, 2008 1:10am
I just noticed something interesting about the design/function of the Telegram and Gazette website. On the top of each comment page for a story they have a ‘bread crumb’ link designed to take you back to the story that particular comment page is a child of. It looks like this:
What’s interesting is that link is actually a script that tells your browser to go back one page in its history. So if I link to a comment page on the T&G directly and you then click that link, instead of going to the T&G story it relates to, as you would expect, it takes you back here to RadioBall. Kinda nice bug feature for a little site like mine. I enjoy pointing out how ridiculous the T&G commenters are but don’t necessarily like loosing the traffic.
Try it here:
link to a T&G comment page
For what it’s worth I’m seeing this behavior in Safari on a Mac, your mileage may vary.
