- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2006 01:54:50 +0000 (UTC)
On Sun, 14 Nov 2004, Matthew Thomas wrote: > > On 11 Nov, 2004, at 5:11 AM, Matthew Raymond wrote: > > ... > > Who's to say the UA couldn't just append the menu to the context menu? Or > > append the browser context menu as a submenu? > > Reasonableness. Shortcut menus (aka context menus) become more difficult > to use the more items they have (as closeness to screen edges require > that they open in a direction other than southeast), and submenus of > shortcut menus are extremely difficult to use for the same reason > squared. Do you know of a method that could be used that would not suffer from these problems? > > Or allow access to the context menu when an additional key is pressed > > (such as alt + [right-click])? ... > > That might be possible on Windows, but on Mac OS Option+click is already > used for copying, Shift+click for extending selection, Command+click > often for grab-scrolling, and Ctrl+click for opening the shortcut menu > in the first place. > > I think we may be venturing into "no practical solution for the > platforms some user agents are running on" territory again. This would be unfortunate. It is very clear that there is a need for Web applications to be able to provide context-sensitive commands. Windows Live Local (formely MSN Virtual Earth) provides a context menu on its maps, and it makes a lot of sense. Would we not want to allow a more semantic and accessible way of doing that? -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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