I agree with the point Todd made. As distinctions between web and desktop breakdown, conventions are going to merge as well. We recently did some user testing for a web app that did not yet have contextual menu options and found that most of our participants were right-clicking to do common actions you would expect in desktop apps.
Does your application look and feel more like a website or a desktop application? Users will pick up the visual language and behave accordingly. If it looks like an app, many people will expect it to behave like one (hence Google docs). I don't think context menus are particularly uncommon, but they are a shortcut. One rule I always go by, if a function is in a contextual menu it also has to be available somewhere else as well. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=38441 ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [email protected] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
