rafter Posted August 10, 2008 Posted August 10, 2008 Hover is all style and no substance. I vote click.
mcjeff215 Posted August 10, 2008 Posted August 10, 2008 I prefer click, but hover are alright as long as the top categories jump to link pages of the menu items. That gives you a static click path as well. Two additional concerns I'd have with JS menus in general -- do they work correctly with screen readers and will the JavaScript screw with search engine ranking (if you care about that)? If the link data is in an external .js file or is handled via DOM manipulation, I can see that being a potential problem (again, if you care).
Chilly Posted August 10, 2008 Posted August 10, 2008 Hover all the way, as long as the categories aren't tiny and thus hard to hover on.
Beerball Posted August 10, 2008 Posted August 10, 2008 Hover=RJ Click Picard<a pimple on my dimpled butt HOVER
JinWPB Posted August 10, 2008 Posted August 10, 2008 A bad example of suck and hover is the Fins homepage. Their drop downs windows go from vert.box to a narrow horiz. bar across the page. You have to hold the L.click down to navigate and if your pointer slips off that narrow bar the boxes close and you have to start all over again. Sucks like some fish. Bye the way that has to be the worst NFL team site going.
Rubes Posted August 10, 2008 Posted August 10, 2008 Hate hover. Like click more better. By the way, on Mac Safari the "Open External Links in New Window" isn't working, even though the box is checked. On the front page, only the sub-links listed under "Sunday's Washington Coverage" will open the link in a new window.
SDS Posted August 10, 2008 Author Posted August 10, 2008 Hate hover. Like click more better. By the way, on Mac Safari the "Open External Links in New Window" isn't working, even though the box is checked. On the front page, only the sub-links listed under "Sunday's Washington Coverage" will open the link in a new window. try reloading the page. It's working for me. Sometimes though it requires a refresh.
todd Posted August 10, 2008 Posted August 10, 2008 I like hover unless the items in the dropdown exceed 4 items. Otherwise, click is less obtrusive. Of course, I wouldn't complain either way. So, for some technical reasons - I need to change out our current menus on TBD. While doing lots of thinking about menus - I wondered which style people preferred: 1. Hover over a section in the menu bar and the drop down magically appears 2. Click on a section in the menu to make the submenu appear I guess this comes down to the convenience of not having to click vs. the inadvertent mouse moving over and displaying the menu when you don't want it to.
Bmwolf21 Posted August 11, 2008 Posted August 11, 2008 I like hover unless the items in the dropdown exceed 4 items. Otherwise, click is less obtrusive. Of course, I wouldn't complain either way. I agree. I voted click, but I could handle the hover if it was limited to less than 4 dropdown items.
Ned Flanders Posted August 11, 2008 Posted August 11, 2008 Bye the way that has to be the worst NFL team site going. Been trying to get on the Bills online store all weekend, only to find the site down....
SDS Posted August 12, 2008 Author Posted August 12, 2008 alright, so how do you like the new menu? "Hover" readers will be disappointed.
MattyT Posted August 12, 2008 Posted August 12, 2008 alright, so how do you like the new menu? "Hover" readers will be disappointed. They're great. Kind of the best of both worlds because after you click, you can hover all you want.
In-A-Gadda-Levitre Posted August 12, 2008 Posted August 12, 2008 click btw, different topic... the checkbox for spawning a new window on tbd is nice, but it doesn't remember my selection. I'm using Mozilla Firefox and I have uncheck it and check it again every time I reopen Firefox to tbd. Is that a Firefox problem? I admit I haven't it tried it with IE or Safari.
SDS Posted August 12, 2008 Author Posted August 12, 2008 click btw, different topic... the checkbox for spawning a new window on tbd is nice, but it doesn't remember my selection. I'm using Mozilla Firefox and I have uncheck it and check it again every time I reopen Firefox to tbd. Is that a Firefox problem? I admit I haven't it tried it with IE or Safari. you need to have cookies enabled.
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