On Tue, 20 Mar 2012, Brian Smith wrote:

> I always prefer dropdowns to be onclick rather than hover.  It stops them
> getting in the way if you accidentally mouse over them - and in this case
> they're dropping down over an area of the screen with lots of clickables
> and info in so I think that would really help.
> 
> If you do this though it's helpful to have a little caret symbol next to
> the text to indicate there's a clickable.  You probably only need this on
> the rightmost breadcrumb?


We solved this at my previous company with the following design: "rich" links
were denoted by "<icon> Link Text".

Hovering over the icon would provide the on-hover action (such as the
bread-crumbing), whereas a click on the link-text would also invoke the action.


The downside of such an approach here would be that it would require two clicks
if I really wanted to get to the linked page :/


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