Sorry for the delay; I don't check my mail on this list as often as I'd like to.
On Sun, Dec 03, 2006 at 08:40:01PM -0700, Frank Reid wrote: > > It's not a matter of cuteness. It's the same as a pull-down menu. You > click on the File button at the top of any Windows program and a menu > drops down to show additional choices. Note that you have to click on the File button. The menus don't magically appear as your mouse cursor passes over the File button. Often you're going to some other window or button, and you aren't trying to get the File menu at all. These cute web menus pop up without clicking. > You can slide across to the next one and see if it's there. This is > how all Windows programs work, such as PAF. Even in Windows, I can't go more than one sub-menu past the main drop-down menu, and I frequently struggle even with the second-level menus. They really are hard. Web pages that try to imitate this feel make the problem even worse because they sit in the content of the page, they don't look like Windows menus, and they don't behave like Windows menus. With the web, where we are accustomed to clicking to make things happen, it is much better to make it so we click to go between menu levels. Traditionally, "this is how all web pages work," and in my somewhat limited experience watching non-technical people use computers, it is much easier to do. > It makes no difference if they drop down, pop up (such as the one on > the tool bar of your Windows screen when you right-click in an empty > place) or if it flies out to the side. Certainly if you have only a > few choices they can be held in the main list but if you have many > choices in each of the main categories there's no other way to display > them. Sub-menus are fine, as long as it's clear what belongs in each one, and you click to make them appear so that it's easier to navigate the page. -- Andrew McNabb http://www.mcnabbs.org/andrew/ PGP Fingerprint: 8A17 B57C 6879 1863 DE55 8012 AB4D 6098 8826 6868
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