I agree on most of your posting. But there are also examples for useful context menus. For instance working on non selectable areas (and not on selectable objects). Good example for this is a hyperlink in a webbrowser. You can click on a hyperlink to follow it in the same window. But what's with other options? "Save link as...", "Open link in new window..."? Did you ever use a webbrowser which doesn't support context menues on a hyperlink? E.g. OmniWeb 3.x? It's a nightmare if you are familiar with netscape. What are the options without context menus? Selecting the text and then using a shortcut or a trad. menu entry? Or drawing a rubberband over the area and then using a shortcut. Grr... C.U.CW
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I agree on most of your posting. But there are also examples for useful context menus. For instance working on non selectable areas (and not on selectable objects). Good example for this is a hyperlink in a webbrowser. You can click on a hyperlink to follow it in the same window. But what's with other options? "Save link as ...", "Open link in new window..."? Did you ever use a webbrowser which doesn't support context menues on a hyperlink? E.g. OmniWeb 3.x? It's a nightmare if you are familiar with netscape. What are the options without context menus? Selecting the text and then using a shortcut or a trad. menu entry? Or drawing a rubberband over the area and then using a shortcut. Grr... C.U.CW