- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2005 00:26:10 +0000 (UTC)
On Wed, 7 Dec 2005, Nathan Heagy wrote: > > > > menu n. A list of available options. > > If the definition of menu is too vague then couldn't we include <ul> and > <ol>? Especially since people make dynamic menus with these right now. <ul> is an unordered list of items. <ol> is an ordered list of items. <dl> is an unordered list of name-value tuples. <menu> is an unordered list of available command options. They seem separate to me, I'm not sure we need to merge them further. > However, imho ideally the menubar would be powerful enough to turn into > something like MS Office 12's ribbon. When I consider how that might > look in html I think that ultaflexible menus within menus would work > nicely. As I understand it the two key things about the Ribbon are that effects are instantly previewed (requires an "onmouseover"/"onmouseout" set of events on all commands, though not limited to mice of course) and the fact that the ribbon is context sensitive (not hard just by showing/hiding commands on the fly). I haven't seen it first hand though so I may be mistaken. It seems that it should be possible to implement that kind of UI with almost any toolbar-like solution that we come up with. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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