Along that same theory the Read New nav bar, the Buffistas Home footer and the Threadsuck row of links should also be links. Which are a snap to duplicate, formatting wise, in the more recent gens of browsers, but not all across the user base.

Speaking of which, the crumbs should be at the top of the list of posts and the bottom, but still working out just where.

Oh, good. And yeah, I know. There's not necessarily an analogous position at the bottom.

How does this look to people? I'm not sure of the range of browser validity.

Firefox 3 on XP - looks normal to me except that the usernames aren't links to profiles (probably because that's a guest view and not a logged-in member?)

I'm not a huge fan of the box around the breadcrumbs at the top and bottom, but that's just an aesthetic thing. Is there any way to left-justify that line instead of putting it right on top of the Read New | Message Center etc?

Yeah--if you're not logged in you can't click through on user names.

Do you mean left justify it in the same line as Read New? That's very busy. It would have to be a separate line to prevent the possibility of over(lap/flow).

Speaking for me and not Jess, I'd be fine with left on a separate line, but on the right it looks cluttered/crowded with all the other stuff there.

(Although I'll probably display:none it anyway, so ignore this opinion if you like...)

looks fine to me, but i'm also using firefox 3 on XP. oh and i agree with Jessica about the box. it looks out of place there.

You are seeing the mirrored breadcrumb at the bottom too, right? I tried it on the left and sometimes it came into the space of the rest of the nav bar and sometimes it didn't, and it looked messy. Which is why I wanted to make the justification in the navbar consistent, and distinguish the breadcrumbs visually somehow. It could be by background colour or something else, though.

I think the breadcrumbs in the top of the right navbar is overkill.

I like top and bottom. Because, of course...