Breaking down Amazon's mega dropdown

Re:Breaking down Amazon's mega dropdown by tyw on Wednesday March 06, 2013 @09:01AM (#5331135)

I seem to recall this same technique being used in the pre-OS X era of the Mac OS. Not sure exactly how far back, but I'd say at least into System 8 if not System 7.

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Re:Breaking down Amazon's mega dropdown by namenotrequired on Wednesday March 06, 2013 @09:13AM (#5331190)

You're right, mac has been using this technique for a while. Actually trying it out right now, it still does this, but you need to move it fast. If you move it fast enough within the triangle it'll stay, while if you move it at the same speed straight down, the menu goes away immediately.

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Re:Breaking down Amazon's mega dropdown by bluedino on Wednesday March 06, 2013 @10:35AM (#5331631)

You can also tell it doesn't seem to do it when you move the mouse back to the original menu item.

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Re:Breaking down Amazon's mega dropdown by lectrick on Wednesday March 06, 2013 @02:08PM (#5333111)

There is a small delay, so they don't use the Amazon technique.

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Re:Breaking down Amazon's mega dropdown by namenotrequired on Thursday March 07, 2013 @11:04AM (#5338327)

Oh yes, you're right. You can tell they use the triangle technique though.

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Re:Breaking down Amazon's mega dropdown by sneak on Wednesday March 06, 2013 @09:22AM (#5331247)

It was like this in System 7.0 at least, perhaps 6.x.

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