Link Navigation

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Script Summary:
Inserts LINK elements with rel=prev, next, up.. on a number of sites

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There is such a great, but unfortunately underused accessibility feature, called navigational links.

They go into the HEAD of the page, and tell people that this page is part of the sequence, giving clues what previous, next, first, last, upper in hierarchy page is. Very helpful.

Opera provides navigational buttons using those links, Seamonkey too. For Firefox to use it, one have to install Link Widgets addon, https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/2933

It understands the LINK elements, and tries to guess page sequences on URLs, but that does not always help.

This script reads html A's on page, and then inserts Links to the head.

ok. Walkthrough:

1. Install Link Widgets.
2. Disable link Guessing in its preferences.
3. Install script
4. Go to the http://sinfest.net, http://dilbert.com, http://sexylosers.com, http://menagea3.net, http://xkcd.com, http://thenoobcomic.com and enjoy unified always-present site navigation

Future plans: some way of site-schemes updating, integration with Link Widgets addon?