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Pie-Menus in Mozilla
pronik writes "The Optimoz project on MozDev had two main development branches. While the first one, Mouse Gestures have been a success, we had to wait for the second, also very promising one: PieMenus. Now the wait is over! First implementation of PieMenus for Mozilla - RadialContext - is available for installation and testing!!!"
... Don't they only work well with Apples?
Maybe with ice cream on the side...
Select one from the following (thinking of the Sims, but we'll call GeekSims(TM)
- Order Pizza
- Fall asleep at computer desk
- /. another site into oblivion.
- Get the geek community to ping -f M$
Any other options are welcome.
Are you local? There's nothing for you here!
In my mind's eye I see an image of selecting an item from a newfangled animated menu, each time causing a little pie icon to fly across the screen and splat onto the Bill Gates image that appears randomly in the background. We certainly need more features like that in open source software (beats a talking paperclip anyway).
I Am My Own Worst Enemy
The spelling fairy floats toward you and you wince as she whacks you over the head with her wand... but suddenly you realize how to spell "gymnastics."
The spelling fairy floats off into the distance, singing.
Here my favorite "pie menu" animation
Table-ized A.I.
<select name="pie">
<option value="Apple" selected>
<option value="Cherry">
<option value="Blueberry">
</select>
Mmm, blueberry.