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Re:Unified Dropdown Menu: One Menu to Rule All Links by fratido on Thursday July 05, 2012 @03:53PM (#4204666)
In times of ever increasing mobile web usage dropdown menus should be abandoned since they rely heavily on the hover state which doesn't exist on touch devices.
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Re:Unified Dropdown Menu: One Menu to Rule All Links by subsection1h on Thursday July 05, 2012 @05:03PM (#4204958) 

    dropdown menus should be abandoned since they
    rely heavily on the hover state
Not all drop-down menus are opened by hovering. Not even close.

Further, a menu with a responsive design, such as the following, negates the need to abandon anything:

http://jasonweaver.name/lab/flexiblenavigation/

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Re:Unified Dropdown Menu: One Menu to Rule All Links by kimmel on Tuesday July 10, 2012 @03:16PM (#4225596)
> Further, a menu with a responsive design, such as the following, negates the need to abandon anything:

> http://jasonweaver.name/lab/flexiblenavigation/

I ran some tests on this menu. It fails on android 2.3.x and 4.x. Also does it really need JS to function properly. No it doesn't, CSS already has all the features needed.

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