UBB.Developers Forums UBB.threads 6 V6 Modifications V6 Mod Ideas Mozilla Navigation Buttons

I just found a standard feature in Mozilla which adds a set of navigation buttons just below the location bar at the top of the screen. There are buttons like Top, Up, First, Prev, Next, Last etc and it's really easy to use them, it's just a matter of adding a link tag in the header for each one containing the URL they should link to. I've attached an image showing the placement of the buttons.

I just did a quick hack for the postlist which makes use of these buttons to move around the pages. It's really neat. =] Although I've had to insert them outside the header at the moment which isn't xhtml compliant.

Is there a similar function in Explorer?

Is anyone interested of having a mod that makes use of these buttons on all pages?

I am a fan of Mozilla and never noticed this myself. If there is anything I can do to assist in getting this to work with UBB.t, I would be more than happy to help.

You can add the nav bar with the following menu option: View->Show/Hide->Site Navigation Bar->Show Always.

It's just a matter of adding tags that look like this:
<link rel="HOME" title="Forum Index" href="https://ubbdev.com/threads/php/ubbthreads?Cat=" />

The above will make the "Top" button link to the forum index, with the text "Forum Index" showing as tool tip.

The only thing is that the link tags should be in the head of the document for it to be xhtml compliant (it still works with it in the body though), so it might be necessary to rearrange some code to get all link information before the send_header() function is used. It might be possible to move the send_header() to the end as well, and it just above the other places where it might be necessary, like before an error page is shown.

But if this only works in Mozilla I'm not sure if it's worth it, although it would be a nice feature.

can you show me a screen shot of what you are referring to?

Thanks

There is a screenshot of the buttons attached to the first post of this thread.

It's quite a cool feature. Didnt discover it till now. Unfortunatelly it seems Mozilla by default installs it with "Hide Always" on, unless I turned it off.
If someone wants to see how useful it can be at a board take a look at this one (sorry, it's in Spanish).. It even shows a folder with all the different boards in the forum and so on... really cool.
It would be cool, I just wonder how many people would ever notice it if it is true as I believe that it is installed "off" by default.