[pmwiki-users] Re: Re: Dynamic wiki trails - passing along the name of the trail page
Martin Fick
fick at fgm.com
Tue Apr 5 17:33:41 CDT 2005
Patrick R. Michaud pmichaud at pobox.com said:
> So, instead of modifying URLs, let's use cookies. We can set a "trail"
> cookie on the browser that identifies the reader's current trail,
> then the <<|{?trail}|>> or <<|{$TrailCookie}|>> markup displays the
> trail path corresponding to the cookie. The cookie gets set by any
> trail map page containing a (:trailpage:) directive, so when someone
> visits a trail page, they're setting the implicit {?trail} for any
> pages they visit later (or at least until they come to another
> (:trailpage:)). This stays in place even if they visit pages not
> on the trail, or follow non-trail links.
Alas, this seems to have a simliar problem but worse when getting
sidetracked:
If the user is on a trail and get sidetracked onto another page,
a page with (:trailpage:) on it, then can now no longer use the
back button to return to his original trail! I really don't
like that!
-Martin
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