[Sigia-l] potential challenge to the dominance of the left nav bar in local navigation

[Jon Hanna]

> What I think is interesting in the Audi site (to get away from the general
> thread for the moment) is that it is much easier / feels more
> natural to use
> the flytout menus when the mouse is traveling from right to left
> (kinesiologists have pointed out before that movements towards
> the body are
> easier than movements away from the body...)
>
> Thoughts?

Yes, I've always favoured right-hand side navigation personally, and partly
for that reason (it's also allows the content to download first with many
natural ways of constructing such pages, is closer to the scrollbar, matches
a read-content-then-go-elsewhere usage pattern to LTR reading, and brings
content earlier in the tab order without the use of tabindex.

Out of interest, does anyone know if left-hand side or right-hand side is
most common in RTL documents?