[Sigia-l] Rollover Navigation Submenus: Usable or not?

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Benjamin Kahn:

> Since so much research has gone into designing the menu interaction in
> desktop applications and since flyout navigation seems so similar to
> menus already, why isn't this knowledge applied to flyout navigation on
> web pages?

Simply because the desktop apps almost always call the operating system to
deal with menus, whereas web menus are the stepchildren of HTML/JavaScript
developers. The former have on their side infinitely more resources,
testing, debugging, history, etc.

Ziya
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