Re:In Praise of the Unambiguous Click Menu
by anoncake on Saturday March 20, 2021 @08:32AM
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Same on Windows and Linux.
Re:In Praise of the Unambiguous Click Menu
by still_grokking on Saturday March 20, 2021 @02:16PM
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This was also my first though: Did this person never saw a properly working menu before?
The proposed solution in the blog post is just crap. That's not like menus work!
That one needs to click to close a menu is especially bad UX.
But the root of all evil is clearly that web-tech just isn't suitable for application development! You need to "reinvent" basic stuff. Like menus…
The author is clearly not a macOS user. In macOS:
- clicking a top-level menu label toggles between 'menu open' and 'menu closed' state
- in 'menu open' state:
a) entering a top-level menu label opens that submenu
b) switching to a different app or clicking outside of any submenu toggles to 'menu closed' state
I'd be interested in hearing if other OSes do something different. Maybe the fact that it's a global menu is relevant.
> All links are contained in submenus except for top-level items that have no submenu (e.g. “Home”). We’ll deal with what happens to those top-level pages in a moment.
Did the article end up covering that? As another comment suggests, having some links stay on-page and others navigate away is a potential problem. If it's only ever Home, that might be mitigated — you can always leave Home out anyway and utilise the site logo. I guess, for other top-level-only menus, differentiating them visually would be the answer — maybe blue underline for links and three-dimensional rectangles for 'buttons'? (ducks)