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   Northern Soyjaks to All   
   Re: What is the website navigation bar?   
   07 Dec 25 11:22:30   
   
   From: soynorth@proton.me   
      
   Barryedwin1 wrote:   
   > Nuno Silva wrote on 7/12/25 9:25 am:   
   >> On 2025-12-07, Barryedwin1 wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> Northern Soyjaks wrote on 7/12/25 2:16 am:   
   >>>> Subject. what is it?   
   >>>   
   >>> The OP is referring to SeaMonkey's "Website Navigation Bar", ~   
   >>>   
   >>> SeaMonkey Browser's sub-menu:~   
   >>>   
   >>> View | Show/Hide | Website_Navigation_Bar |   
   >>> Show Always, Only as Needed, Never Show   
   >>>   
   >>> Buttons shown include "Top(Home)", 'Up(one level), "first, previous,   
   >>> Next,Last" navigate the current directory of the website, "Document"   
   >>> (unsure of what this is), "More" expose extra content, "Subscribe"   
   >>> Again I'm unsure, but maybe a subscription service to the website, or   
   >>> even RSS newsfeed or similar.   
   >>>   
   >>> Nothing in SeaMonkey's Help Contents, on it...   
   >>   
   >> Indeed, https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=573748   
   >>   
   >>> As Schugo noted, ten~fifteen years back (or more), almost all websites   
   >>> were navigable using it, but these days, few websites work with it"   
   >>>   
   >>> These days, I don't really use it, but it does/did keep all your tabs   
   >>> level for scrolling, which was handy.   
   >>> I used to use it as it kept all my tabs level, so I could mouse-scroll   
   >>> 'left-right' through my tabs from any tab, but that as discontinued,   
   >>> and now tab-scroll only works from the left tab-bar "open a new tab'   
   >>> button.   
   >>   
   >> These days, a bunch of sites still support it because they use some sort   
   >> of content management system which makes use of LINK with the REL   
   >> attribute, so you may encounter e.g. blogs or some webforum where the   
   >> prev/next buttons navigate through the pagination.   
   >>   
   >> In Bugzilla, at least bugzilla.mozilla.org, the first/prev/next/last   
   >> buttons are populated from a search (list?), and I also get a list of   
   >> saved searches under More.   
   >>   
   >> The Website Navigation Bar also has RSS/Atom feeds (in this specific   
   >> case, this is also available in the location bar), as well as links for   
   >> "alternate" versions of a page (in some cases this will include "amp" or   
   >> "amphtml" which in news outlets sometimes shows a more readable version   
   >> of an article).   
   >>   
   > Wow! Excellent Description of functions! Much appreciated.   
   > I hope the OP appreciates your educational post as much as I do. Barry   
   Thanks for the answers, it's nice seeing that this community is active.   
   I still don't know exactly what to put in the  tags to make these   
   buttons usable though.   
      
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