Posted by usenet+2004 on 05/07/06 18:47

Toby Inkster:

> usenet+2004 wrote:
>
> > 2. Consistency, both appearance- and function-wise.
> > First, the menu *looks* different to mine,
>
> One could use CSS system colours to style it in a way that blends in more
> with the user's system.

Good point, hadn't thought of that. Still leaves the question of
wording but.

> > Only "cancelling" or
> > opening another menu seems to collapse it.
> > 'Cancel' on a menu sounds odd to me.
>
> You've clicked a link; the browser would normally now follow the link.
> Cancel allows you to cancel that.

I'm still not convinced! Cancel the following of the link, which
hasn't happened, or cancel (=collapse) the menu? I feel my concern is
with the label itself, not its function, even though that is new to me.
How about 'close'?

> > (One of my gripes with Firefox is that the menu brought up by right
> > clicking doesn't have an option for following the link in the current
> > tab/window.)
>
> Try Opera. :-)

Used to use it a lot. Even tailored the "context menu" to my liking!

--
Jock

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