Epinions delimiter examples
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Here is some actual text from an epinions search, rendered with <PRE>:
Editorial Dummy >Platinum Albums of 1998 > > Before These Crowded
Streets - Dave Matthews Band
On Video >Childrens > > Nightmare Before Christmas
On Video >Childrens > > Land Before Time
Fiction: By Genre >Old_Fiction > > Before You Sleep
Biography & Autobiography >General > > Before the Wind : The Memoir of
an American Sea Captain, 1808-1833
Here are a few options for improved appearance. I've corrected spelling errors (the possessive of children is children's) and have faked the appearance of links; they don't actually work.
- Standardize on a single delimiter and reduce its size (here by
<FONT SIZE="-1">, but CSS should be used where compatible).
- Use a single greater-than:
Editorial Dummy > Platinum Albums of 1998 > Before These Crowded
Streets - Dave Matthews Band
On Video > Children's > Nightmare Before Christmas
On Video > Children's > Land Before Time
Fiction: By Genre > Old_Fiction > Before You Sleep
Biography & Autobiography > General > Before the Wind : The Memoir of
an American Sea Captain, 1808-1833
- Or, using » as delimiter:
Editorial Dummy » Platinum Albums of 1998 » Before These Crowded
Streets - Dave Matthews Band
On Video » Children's » Nightmare Before Christmas
On Video » Children's » Land Before Time
Fiction: By Genre » Old_Fiction » Before You Sleep
Biography & Autobiography » General » Before the Wind : The Memoir of
an American Sea Captain, 1808-1833
- Or, using the HTML 4.0 character
→ or → as delimiter (a true right-arrow character, rendered here in your browser, probably as nothing: →):
Editorial Dummy → Platinum Albums of 1998 → Before These Crowded
Streets - Dave Matthews Band
On Video → Children's → Nightmare Before Christmas
On Video → Children's → Land Before Time
Fiction: By Genre → Old_Fiction → Before You Sleep
Biography & Autobiography → General → Before the Wind : The Memoir of
an American Sea Captain, 1808-1833
- Hide the supercategories altogether:
Before These Crowded
Streets - Dave Matthews Band
Nightmare Before Christmas
Land Before Time
Before You Sleep
Before the Wind : The Memoir of
an American Sea Captain, 1808-1833
We simply don't need to know about the supercategories if they're not selectable.
- Format the categories to highlight the end link, not the categories. (Here I'm faking the categories to make them look like links.)
Editorial Dummy » Platinum Albums of 1998 »
Before These Crowded
Streets - Dave Matthews Band
On Video » Children's »
Nightmare Before Christmas
On Video » Children's »
Land Before Time
Fiction: By Genre » Old_Fiction
Before You Sleep
Biography & Autobiography » General »
Before the Wind : The Memoir of
an American Sea Captain, 1808-1833
At most three supercategories per line, with a <BR> or CSS equivalent after each line. End link is larger. (You could also do a <STRONG>, but don't change the colour!) Note that left-justification itself dramatically improves readability and, more important, scannability.
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