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From: Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
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Subject: Re: Safari 8.0 gripe
Date: 1 Aug 2014 04:21:11 GMT
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On 2014-08-01, Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> wrote:
> In article <c3v7ldFjlk9U1@mid.individual.net>, Jolly Roger
><jollyroger@pobox.com> wrote:
>
>> > No, it's a hierarchy of the path to the page, whether or not you have
>> > visited them.  Some, or maybe all, of the intermediate pages may not be
>> > accessible, and result in a 40n error.
>> 
>> Ah, interesting. I'm not sure how helpful that really is then. I doubt I
>> would ever use it.
>
> It's a quick way to get to the home page of a site when you accessed a
> child page directly from a link in an email, iMessage, newsgroup
> posting, etc.   That's only one example.  Here's another example:
>
>
>                                    Photos
>                                       |
>                                       |
> ----------------------------------------------------
>    |         |         |         |         |
>    |         |         |         |         |
> 2000  2001  2002  2003  2004
>                       |
>                       |
> ----------------------------------------------------
>    |    |      |       |       |
> Jan  Feb Mar  Apr  May
>
> And a bunch of photos on the links from the months.
>
> You want to go from a Photo in Jan to a Photo in Apr of the same year.
> You right click on the address of that photo, choose 2002, then click
> on the Apr link and then the photo.
>
> Without this method, you would have to edit the address in the address
> bar.

I've always edited the address manually, and don't consider it very
inconvenient. To each, his own, though, of course.

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