> As to full fledged great examples of dynamic menus:
>
> http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/menu/
> http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/examples/menu/
They seem to possess the usability flaws earlier discussed in this
thread.
You seem to have lost me. Can you elaborate?
Take the full example:
http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/examples/menu/leftnavfromjs.html
> http://www.udm4.com/
Those are the ones I was referring to that might benefit from a little
user guide for the site visitor :-)
Again, please elaborate, what do you mean by user guide? If you have
to explain a menu, it failed its purpose, IMHO. And yes, user testing
showed me in the past that multi level menus that don't work like the
windows ones are confusing.
To imply that Yahoo - or Yahoo code is a model for anything is a bit
hard for me to fathom :-)
I didn't imply that, I am just very impressed with the work that went
into the menu widget and the final outcome. I'd be as impressed if
Google, Macrobe or any private organisation had done it.
It is tested with assistive technology, it works as you expect it to
do, it is constantly tested on all the A-level browsers, backed up by
a developer community with a quick turnaround mailing list and is
free. At least to me that makes it an interesting product. Especially
as I have a strong opinion about these kind of menus, I was amazed
that there is not much I can say against this one.
Talking more in-depth with James Edwards who did UDM and reading his
explanations about the usability and accessibility research in the
JavaScript Anthology made me realise that there is much more to it
than just funky skins, too.
The only thing it lacks is a lot of pretty implementations and more
detailed example instructions together with simple examples that don't
expect JS to be enabled. That is - I suppose - based on the fact that
it is meant to be for developers who know about the limitations and
how to use JavaScripts sensibly.
If your purpose is to reach people who just want to implement a multi
level menu on their web sites without spending time or showing
interest to learn about the consequences you have to take another
approach.
If browsers were meant to have multi level menus, there'd be a W3C
standard interface element for it - oh wait, there is:
http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/interact/forms.html#h-17.6
http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/images/optgroup_exmpl.gif
Funny it never got implemented that way in browsers...
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