Then can there please be a mode I can go into merge the second menu with the first? Remember everyone that menu is pure css and there are accesskeys that can added for each item.
On 3/16/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Quote me on this: The SAGE notebook will NEVER have multi-level dropdowns. > > If I ever suggest it, remind me of this. If I persist, throw something at my > head. > > On Fri, 16 Mar 2007, Nils Bruin wrote: > > > > > If lots of options get added then menus are unavoidable, but currently > > I don't think the options presented in the notebook take up real > > estate that would otherwise get good use. Avoiding drop-down menus has > > the advantage that all options are immediately visible. Having to > > first drop down the menu does add another layer of indirection. > > > > For the help: From experience (my university uses them quite a bit), I > > find that multi-level CSS drop down menus are a rather mixed blessing. > > The problem: Path of the pointing device becomes important in addition > > to the position of the click. Try navigating one a few levels deep > > using an oversensitive trackpad on a laptop. Does anybody know how > > accessibility tools can make sense of drop down menus? > > > > I think good search access would provide a much better interface to > > the help than a drop-down hierarchical contents list. Even just a > > search tool that produces a page with the lines from the index that > > match a given substring would be very useful. I find I never access > > computer algebra system help via contents lists, but always via search > > or index. > > > > In all, I think I'd side with Tish on this one. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://sage.scipy.org/sage/ and http://modular.math.washington.edu/sage/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
