- From: Matthew Raymond <mattraymond@earthlink.net>
- Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2004 06:41:03 -0400
David Hyatt wrote:
> Note that there are really two kinds of menus... DHTML popup menus that
> should support CSS styles and be similar to DHTML menus on the Web today
It's hard to tell by the structure of your email, but I think you
mean that the two kinds of menus are standard menus and popup menus. It
should be noted that my previous sample code did not take popup menus
into consideration. To be honest, I kinda like the way XUL does popup
menus. In XUL, everything's done in XML. Here's an example I stole from
XULPlanet:
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<popupset>
<popup id="clipmenu">
<menuitem label="Cut"/>
<menuitem label="Copy"/>
<menuitem label="Paste"/>
</popup>
</popupset>
<box context="clipmenu">
<description value="Context click for menu"/>
</box>
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I have a slightly simpler idea, which I'll come to in a moment.
> (I believe these should be specifiable just on <ul>/<li> entirely using
> CSS, e.g., with new display types).
I presume you mean using pure CSS menus in combination with Dean
Edwards' IE7.
[Matthew thinks about it for a moment...]
Yeah, I'll buy that. It doesn't provide a solution for keyboard
shortcuts and the lot, but then you'd have to deal with conflicts with
the browser menus anyway. The only problem here is that we'd still need
Javascript and DOM to get popups working. In that regard, I have the
following idea:
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<div style="display: none; margins: 0px">
<div id="myContextMenu">
...Menu Stuff...
</div>
</div>
<span context="myContextMenu">Hello World!</span>
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The way this works is simple. When you right-click (or whatever
click you use to get a context menu in your OS) anywhere inside the
<span> element, the element with the ID specified in the context
attribute temporarily becomes the child of the <span>. When the
temporary child element is clicked or looses focus, it's automatically
returned to its original parent. The context attribute could be
specified in just about any element and would work in a similar way. If
someone tries to use this feature maliciously to block access to the
browser context menus, the user could simply use popup blocking to
disable the context attribute.
Received on Thursday, 24 June 2004 03:41:03 UTC