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From: Juan Ulloa
Date: Jun 1, 2009 1:20PM

>Does either of you (or anyone else) have an opinion on whether it's
>better to have menus activated on rollover or by clicking a link? I
>personally have always found most rollover menus to be obtrusive and
>annoying, because they open up if you accidentally move the pointer
>over the link, and then they often don't go away very quickly.

We use the superfish and hoverintent jquery plugins at http://bellevuecollege.edu. This combo allows us to make the menu keyboard accessible (via tabbing), minimizes the accidental popup of menus and gives us control over how long the menu will display after the user hovers away from the menu.

Hope this helps,

Juan C. Ulloa
Webmaster, Web Services, Bellevue College
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