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selectable items and get methods. Obviously they'd have more problems typing
natural language into a form and POSTing it. (Search engines don't ignore
CSS hidden items in list navigations (with obvious caveats))

Ditto accessibility, as long as it's marked up correctly, selects are no
less accessible than long lists of links.

What should be a concern is that if you are using this method that you are
using a decent static HTML get form in order to fetch the sub-items, and not
using remote scripting. This would be an appropriate place to use Ajax to
pull the next level of the hierarchy in, provided the forms work without it.

Hope those thoughts are of some use,

Cheers,

Dan.


On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 10:42 AM, James Whitehead <
mumbles.1975 at googlemail.com> wrote:

> Hi BNM, please help.
>
> I am involved in the design of a website and somebody has suggested the
> following as a navigation solution...
>
>
>
> http://www.whitemead.co.uk/i/temp/nav/nav-1.0.png
>
>
>
> The main navigation will be across the top with additional links down the
> left.  There will be secondary and then tertiary navigation.  The suggested
> solution involves using two form menus/dropdowns.
>
>
> This mixes conventional navigation with a form, which seems dirty to me.
>  It
> seems to go against the advice given in books/articles to keep search forms
> and navigation separate.  Will SEO be badly affected because there will be
> no HTML list items? Is it more of an accessibility issue, or is there
> something else I'm missing? If I were to use a CSS hover over solution,
> would the 'hidden' list items be ignored by search engines anyway?
>
>
> Apologies for all the questions - any expertise in this area would be
> really
> appreciated.
>
>
> Cheers
> James
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