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: Alex, that’s a ''great'' talk. I think the biggest problem with right-clicking in general is that you never know where anything goes. There is too much duplication of functionality, and too little logical separation between where anything ''should'' go. And it doesn’t help that the right mouse button isn’t labelled. So, for example, Firefox’s menu for any empty area in the page shows things like Back and Forward and several other items that apply to the page as a whole. It also contains much of the Edit menu but not all of it. This, naturally, leads to a lot of hunting through menus and never having a good idea of where to guess. If a logical separation were strictly enforced, finding the right command would not be as difficult. I think this would be worth exploring solely for the comfort of having real organization. As for Mac users, as you point out, relying on right-click is not a good idea. It would be nice if there were a way to enforce this order there too; perhaps a ‘Selection’ menu could be added in the menu bar. | : Alex, that’s a ''great'' talk. I think the biggest problem with right-clicking in general is that you never know where anything goes. There is too much duplication of functionality, and too little logical separation between where anything ''should'' go. And it doesn’t help that the right mouse button isn’t labelled. So, for example, Firefox’s menu for any empty area in the page shows things like Back and Forward and several other items that apply to the page as a whole. It also contains much of the Edit menu but not all of it. This, naturally, leads to a lot of hunting through menus and never having a good idea of where to guess. If a logical separation were strictly enforced, finding the right command would not be as difficult. I think this would be worth exploring solely for the comfort of having real organization. As for Mac users, as you point out, relying on right-click is not a good idea. It would be nice if there were a way to enforce this order there too; perhaps a ‘Selection’ menu could be added in the menu bar. | ||
: —[[User:David Regev|David Regev]] 07:37, 16 September 2009 (UTC) | : —[[User:David Regev|David Regev]] 07:37, 16 September 2009 (UTC) | ||
Items on the context menu cannot displace the existence of menu items on a menubar because malicious or otherwise ill-behaved websites can disrupt or break the right-click context menu process, such as with alert() on right-click. | |||
The trend away from menubars is somewhat disturbing. I for one don't use Chrome in part because it has very little functionality, and what little of it there is is hard to access owing to lack of a menubar. The trend away from menubars is a triumph of style over functionality, and I believe the fad will fade over time. A quick Google of "office 2007 menus" indicates that the predominant sentiment is <b>not</b> positive, on the contrary, the overwhelming reaction is antipathy. I do not think FF should make the same mistake as Vista / Win7 / Office 2007. | |||
[[User:Barrkel|Barrkel]] 15:02, 23 September 2009 (UTC) | |||
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