Re: [STYLE GUIDE] Modified menu proposal

As long as disabled ui elements are discoverable via per application 
scripting or otherwise (perhaps a FF add on), then I don't see a problem 
with this; in fact I think consistency is preferable.

cheers,
David

Becky Gibson wrote:
> The proposal for navigation of menus and menubars is documented in the PF 
> Wiki [1].  I don't believe that menu behavior has been finalized, thus, I 
> would like to propose a modification to the behavior described. 
> Specifically I propose that, in order to match the behavior for disabled 
> buttons, disabled menu items do NOT receive focus.  This is consistent 
> with how the Macintosh treats menu items and buttons but is different than 
> Windows.  I think it makes sense for widget focus to behave consistently 
> within Web Applications hosted within the browser. 
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> The Dojo Open Source widget tookit is planning to implement a consistent 
> focus behavior for the widgets.  Disabled buttons will not receive focus, 
> disabled buttons within a toolbar will not receive focus, and disabled 
> menu items will not receive focus.  However, we would appreciate feedback 
> from this group.
>
> thanks,
> -becky
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> [1] http://esw.w3.org/topic/MenuWidget
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> Becky Gibson
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