[Sigia-l] DHTML Menus and Usability

[Christopher Turner]

On 9/18/02 5:39 PM, Steven Champeon said to me...

> That's odd. My experience has been that it took two or three tries to
> get it right, and then it's been an almost zero-effort project to add
> DHTML functionality to anything, particularly something as brain-dead
> simple as showing and hiding a layer containing links, which is
> ultimately what a menu system is.

I suppose it depends upon your definition of 'right'. The example of MSNBC
(cited by David Heller in his thoughtful post) is an interesting one... on a
Macintosh (running system 9.2 and IE) those menus don't appear. Like, at
all.

Best,

C/


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