[TYPO3-dev] pages of type "shortcut" in TMENU not having proper item states?

[Joerg Wagner [DigiLog]]

schrieb JoH asenau am 01.06.2009 17:29:
 > A shortcut should IMHO _never_ show it's own URL but always the URL 
it has
 > been pointing to.

I totaly agree. The current behavior leads to page duplicates in many 
situations - which is very unfortunate in terms of SEO.

Beside the fact that IMHO this should definitely be corrected in core, I 
am currently testing an extension that changes this behavior:
http://typo3.org/extensions/repository/view/sms_directshortcuts/current/

During my tests in two rather large systems (including complex 
multilanguage situations) it performed flawlessly.

Cheers, Jörg.



schrieb JoH asenau am 01.06.2009 17:29:
>> also be active (CUR) as it's refering URL is the currently displayed
>> URL.
>> Not indicating a active shortcut is bad usability for visitors IMOH.
>> It's also bad practice, as it's recommended that a page shouldn't link
>> to itself AFAIK (I guess it was SEO or accessibility related).
>
> If this is the current behaviour, then this is definitely a bug but not for
> the reasons you mentioned.
>
> A shortcut should IMHO _never_ show it's own URL but always the URL it has
> been pointing to.
> If (like in your example) page 4 is a shortcut to page 3, then the URL
> should clearly state that and show http://blah.tld/index.php?id=3 - even the
> link itself should be the same. Meaning: No redirect after clicking on the
> link but a rewrite of the link before it is delivered to the browser. This
> way you wouldn't even get the dreaded "double content".
>
> According to that behaviour, all item states should be exactly the same the
> user would have expected to be shown when directly clicking on the menulink
> of the target page itself. After all page 4 is just a _shortcut_ and thus
> can't be ACTive or CURrent by definition and IMHO the user should be
> informed about that behaviour.
>
> So the item states are already fine but the URL is not.
>
> Just my 2 cents
>
> Joey
>