On 23 March 2014 12:53, Quiddity <[email protected]> wrote:

> Some of us power-users are mouse and GUI aficionados. ;)
> Eg. I use this FF add-on, to remove unwanted elements from the context
> menu, and place my 3 custom searches at the top:
> http://menueditor.mozdev.org/
> Like so: http://i.imgur.com/r49wiez.png
>
> That said, I would be annoyed if a site started changing my context menu,
> without asking.
> This sort of adjustment would be well-suited to a Gadget or Preference,
> but not as a site-default. (Which I suspect is what Max intended, when he
> submitted the image/idea to the mailing list. :)
>

Well, right now this is (~) Firefox-only. At some point, it or an
equivalent might make its way into the HTML5 standard process (or have, at
least, a direct equivalent for WebKit and Blink as well as Gecko), but
that's a while off.

If so, and this UX trope becomes somewhat well-known and wide-spread by
users, we could possibly use this for some of the more complex
context-sensitive editing functions inside VisualEditor​ (e.g. "insert
column" in a table context). Also, given our mobile-equality commitment, it
would have to be a supplementary control (no context menus in mobile), with
an alternative ways of doing all the same tasks, which changes the balance
of these controls into being mostly toys, sadly.

​J.
-- 
James D. Forrester
Product Manager, VisualEditor
Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.

[email protected] | @jdforrester
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