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That's brilliant. I'd never noticed that about Mac OS submenus (although I definitely noticed how arduous it was to navigate Windows submenus). I do have one o
by dieterrams 16y ago
That's brilliant. I'd never noticed that about Mac OS submenus (although I definitely noticed how arduous it was to navigate Windows submenus).
I do have one outstanding gripe about Mac OS menus, though, which is that if you misclick on some non-reactive part of the menu (a greyed-out option or divider line), it simply closes the menu. I can't think of any reason why this would be better behavior than leaving the menu open, since at least 90% of the time my intent was to actually click on something that would respond.
- alex_muscar 16y agoYep, that annoys me as well.
- jarrodtaylor 16y agoAbout the menu closing: I think the behavior comes from an older design. On older OS versions (I don't know if this changed with OS X or if it was earlier) you had to hold down the mouse button the whole time you traversed the menu. Letting go of the mouse button over anything but a menu item resulted in closing the menu. You can still do it this way. And now, even though the menus are 'sticky', they close when you click on anything that isn't a menu item. I'm so used to this behavior now that I use it to close menus. Still though, it would be interesting to try it both ways for a while.