This is Web pages we are talking about - not operating systems. If I were inclined to believe what you are trying to say, I would most certainly drop back ten, punt, and transform my web site into something that looked like this: http://www.useit.com/
Why do you try to make them work with design patterns taken from operating systems and applications then? This doesn't make sense to me. In most cases I have to go through an operating system with all these menus to get to a site. Then I get a menu that looks the same, but works differently, how can you explain that when I am someone who does not know or care about the limitations of the web? You offer me a richer experience and you fail to deliver it. Like an escalator that doesn't run but I need to use it as a normal staircase. To me, this is an exception and shouldn't be the rule - why have an escalator at all then? All this talk about pushing the envelope in web design - and what people do is simulate UI design of other systems that are inherently richer. If you copy, at least copy to the full extend, otherwise maybe put your efforts into creating something that works in browsers but will not work in a normal operating system. I don't know what that might be, but it sounds more intriguing and pushing the envelope than trying to mimick application toolbars. Pie menus, for example, are very underused. ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *******************************************************************
