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

[T. Karsjens]

I have also tried to make flying menus work with the command onClick,
instead of onMouseover.  The problem that arises with this approach, which
closely resembles the OS version of menus, is that you eliminate the
possibility of actually clicking on the top level item to get to a landing
page with the sub menu as static links.  When the users saw this, about 40%
of them balked at not having that secondary landing page, if I remember
correctly, although it could have been the other way, with 60% missing the
landing page.  

Timothy Karsjens
Almost Human Studios

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

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
Nullius in Verba 



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