Satya's blog - Don't link to the same page

Jakob Nielsen says: "Homepage links on the homepage typically result from using a universal navigation bar that includes "home" as an option. Fine. But when users are on a page that's featured in the navbar, you should turn off that option's link and highlight it in such as way that indicates that it's the current location."

The problem there is that most such pages are generated from templates or scripts, so it's not straightforward to just mark the link. The script could check the name of the page it's generating against the link name, but that doesn't strike me as elegant.

But what role is played by the "active link"? perhaps browsers should use that to render any link that evaluates as poiting to the same location that's open in the window.

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