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Just out of curiosity, is there a name for the kind of navigation I've been working on?

It looks like this:

<<first <previous 1 2 3 4 5 [...] 20 next> last>>

i.e. navigation where you've got x pages, but you don't want to show x links, you want to limit the amount of space taken up, so you show y links at a time, and indicate the existence of the other pages with an elision.

At some point in the middle, it would look like this:

<<first <previous [...] 8 9 10 11 12 [...] 20 next> last>>

with elisions on both sides.

+2  A: 

It's called web pagination, search result pagination.

Bill the Lizard
+7  A: 

Answering to just clear up this question. I hereby declare that it has no official name.

I also hereby make up the name 'elided pagination' for it.

AmbroseChapel
+1 for arbitrary decision. I like it.
TokenMacGuy
A: 

thresholded navigation pager?

smoothdeveloper