Pringle, Ron wrote: > Ben Munat wrote: > >> Zoe M. Gillenwater wrote: >> >>> Jim Davis wrote: >>> >>> >>>> Here is a link to a demo by Stu Nicholls that uses hover to >>>> change the "page". >>>> >>>> http://www.cssplay.co.uk/menu/one_page.html >>>> >>>> Perhaps his method will provide inspiration. >>>> >>>> >>> While Stu Nicholls demos are amazing examples of what CSS can do, >>> they are not good practical solutions in many cases. This, IMO, is >>> one of those cases. This thing is very hard to use, even for a young person >>> with good motor skills and an expectation of what I will see >>> when I hover and a strong familiarity with all things web. Please, >>> please don't use it in real life. Use Javascript for this sort of >>> thing, or even better, just create separate pages and link them together. >>> >> I don't understand. How is this any less usable than the >> thousands of "fly-out" menus all >> over the web? Not that I'm interested in using it... just curious. >> > > Ben- > > I think that's Zoe's point. Its just as unusable as those thousands of > fly-out menus. >
Yep, that's exactly my point (I never use fly-out menus, but if I was going to, they would be driven by Javascript and styled with CSS). But the problem is even more egregious here, because the hovers cause the entire content of the page to display. If you don't have good enough motor skills (or don't use a mouse at all) to trigger those hovers correctly, then you can't see the content. Not good. As I alluded to, I'm young and have good motor skills, but it took even me three times to get the content to stay up so I could scroll it. We shouldn't dig into this debate on the list though, so if anyone wants to discuss this with me further, please email me off-list. Thanks, Zoe -- Zoe M. Gillenwater Design Services Manager UNC Highway Safety Research Center http://www.hsrc.unc.edu ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d IE7b2 testing hub -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=IE7 List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
