On 4/18/07, Brian Cherne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
If you're set on rolling your own menu, you might also consider my hoverIntent plug-in: http://cherne.net/brian/resources/jquery.hoverIntent.html Brian.
Holy Cow, that is awesome. I wonder if that can be applied to the following UX issue. I was at a Usability Day listening to Tog (http://www.asktog.com/tog.html) describe Apple's original menu experiments. He talked about Hover Intent (not those words, but still). Specifically, he talked about the "neck" of a cascading menu and menus in general. He said that User's hands are not stable. They move alot and in lots of different direction. For instance, when a user goes from one item in a list and tries to go down to a sub-item, they often go in a straight line. This is called crossing through the neck of the menu. The problem is that the neck includes some space outside the menu. The early apple menus disappeared immediately when the user went over the neck. They improved this by using some form of hover intent to keep the menu open while they traveled through the neck. Additionally, they didn't close the menu if the users mouse colored outside the lines. You had to move far away from the menu for it to close. How do the current crop of jQuery menus deal with this? Glen
