I dropped in on PM today, having the luxury of a little time to meander down the dusty stacks this morning, after cooking pancakes for the family .. and after replying to a question on Seekers of Perl Wisdom and I found myself wanting to go back to the position I was at on the SoPW page, so I could read the next oldest post.

With foresight, I could have accomplished this by opening the original post in a new tab, or used the browser back button enough times that I got back to the starting page .. I wonder, how much work would it be to add a link beside the title that would take the browser back to where this post lived on the 'parent' or 'section' page?

Alternatively, perhaps some additional links could be added at the same location to take me to the previous and next posts in the same section.

Just a thought.

Alex / talexb / Toronto

"Groklaw is the open-source mentality applied to legal research" ~ Linus Torvalds

In reply to Provide link back to SoPW from head node by talexb

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