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Re: Drop-down menus

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From: Joe Clark
Date: Aug 14, 2003 11:31AM


Sorry for slow response. 206 messages in inbox. It rains, it pours, etc.

>Most users will be using Internet Explorer, which does not support
>the method at all as yet, so the drop down information would not be
>accessible to most visual users,

If the page is coded correctly, using the same procedures I explained
in my book for DHTML menus, there is *likely* no harm for Win/IE
users. The head of each menu is a link to a separate page listing the
links in the menu. I think there could be an incompatibility when you
get into a:active and a:focus vs. a:hover.

<http://joeclark.org/book/sashay/serialization/Chapter08.html?webaim#p-7800>;

In any event, DHTML is not the only game in town. But it is clear we
don't have a method with across-the-board compatibility.

>As for the consensus view that is has always been that drop-down
>menus are generally not a good idea, I still think that is the
>consensus, and there are obviously those in the full spectrum of
>views, such as yours, that do not agree;

Then there's no consensus. Look 'er up.
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