Gervase Markham wrote:
>>And I will personally beat to death anyone who attempts to
>>change this behavior. ;-)
>>
>
> I think you need to read his message more carefully. He's not suggesting
> that it work like the Mac's click-and-hold context menu, but like NS 4.x's
> menu-appears-on-down instead of menu-appears-on-up.
>
> If menu-appears-on-down, everyone is happy - those used to click-dragging
> can do that, and those who want to click and click again can do that also.
>
> There is a bug open on this, but I don't have the number - search
> Bugzilla.
>
The Linux versions of Mozilla already work like this so it'd be easy to
implement on windows, just copy the Linux behaviour.
In early mozzis we did have Netscape style context menus, but for some
reason it was changed to fit in more with the convention of the windows
platform.
But then there's no consistency on the Windows platform anyway, not even
among MS apps. e.g. in explorer/IE click the icon in the top left of the
title bar, the menu doesn't appear until mouseup, every other app has
the menu appear on mousedown. I still use this menu on windows (because
of my 3.11 background), so I hate the inconsistency. Anyway that was a
bit of an off topic rant, just to say, MS doesn't give a f**k about
consistency so we should go with the menu style for context menus that
is *better* as I can't see any disadvantage of implementing it.
--
David Hallowell
UKUUG Linux 2001 Conference
http://www.ukuug.org/events/linux2001/
