[Sigia-l] Re: log as link to home (Christina Wodtke)

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Christopher Fahey [askrom] wrote:
> 
> She seems to not know about the technique of using Javascript (or
> Actionscript or whatever) to wait a half-second before turning off a
> roll-over menu or switching to another menu option. If a user is moving
> diagonally from a main menu item to a cascaded submenu item, and if that
> path crosses through "un-hot" space,  the delay effect will correct for
> that idiosyncrasy and permit the user to reach the destination zone
> (this is already part of operating system menu behavior).

Perhaps a minor point but not every OS uses a simple delay for the 
display of hierarchical menus. According to Bruce Tognazzini, MacOS uses 
a "V-shaped buffer zone" while Windows uses a simple delay.

http://www.asktog.com/columns/022DesignedToGiveFitts.html
(See answer to Question #6)

The above article was written in 1999. It may not be accurate for more 
recent versions of MacOS or Windows.


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