Re: onmouseover, onfocus, onclick from David Woolley on 2001-02-15 (w3c-wai-ig@w3.org from January to March 2001)

From: David Woolley <david@djwhome.demon.co.uk>
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 22:04:46 +0000 (GMT)
To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
Message-Id: <200102152204.f1FM4k407181@djwhome.demon.co.uk>

> Ideally I would trigger menu appearance or disappearance from
> onclick. Since onclick events occur when a focused item is selected

No.  Ideally, if popup menus are essential to successful web
navigation, rather than a way of showing off, you should campaign for
a popup menu style, that could be applied to lists, in the next version
of CSS.

Menus are really lists.  In fact, the original version of HTML had
rather more variants of lists, but the GUI browser designers failed
to implement them!  (One of them might well have sensibly implemented
the very first sort of non-standard menu:  [ xxxx | xxxxx | xxxxx ].)

Received on Thursday, 15 February 2001 18:06:21 UTC