- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2011 23:23:09 +0000 (UTC)
On Thu, 30 Dec 2010, Nils Dagsson Moskopp wrote: > Ian Hickson <ian at hixie.ch> schrieb am Thu, 30 Dec 2010 01:47:51 +0000 > (UTC): > > > > I am skeptical about allowing Web pages decide what should be in the > > context menu. Adding things is ok, but removing things leads to a > > broken user experience. For example, as a user I frequently make use > > of "view source", and I don't think it would be good for a page to be > > able to remove that feature. > > For the record, crippling context menus is in the wild already: Youtube > has no ?save to disk? (or any other of the standard options) on a > HTML5 video, only ?about HTML5?. Granted, but that doesn't mean we should make it worse. Better to remove such possibilities first (which is what <menu> is about enabling). On Wed, 29 Dec 2010, Glenn Maynard wrote: > > One possible UI: pushing options into a separate menu block. For > example, XP's start menu does this; less-used items are hidden until you > click an arrow at the bottom of the list to expand the full menu. This > would allow sites to set up their own context menu items without a lot > of clutter, but disallow them from completely disabling the existing > one. > > I'm not sure whether pages hinting whether to do this would be > meaningful, since context menu presentation varies wildly and the > desired hint may be different for each browser. This may be better left > to browser extensions. This is one of the possible ways to implement <menu>/contextmenu=. I look forward to implementation experience for these features to guide future work along these lines. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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