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Its also a key on keyboards. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menu_key https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menu_key

panzi 3y ago
Also on the Amazon Fire Stick remote: https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51Da2Z+FTFL.jpg https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51Da2Z+FTFL.jpg
codetrotter 3y ago
Tbh the keyboards at the time when the hamburger menu first showed up had symbols quite different from the symbol of the hamburger menu. And at the moment that symbol still looks different in the same way. Perhaps eventually keyboards will begin to use the hamburger menu symbol on the menu key. Probably a few do already. But I mean most keyboards. And also the hamburger menu symbol is not so much different from all of the other “mystery meatballs” (as Lynda Weinmann called them, many many years ago) that we all know and love. Today I expect that most people will be able to recognise and know how to use the hamburger menu.
- NoZebra120vClip 3y ago
  My ThinkPad for Windows has no Menu key at all. Needless to say, my brand new Acer Chromebook definitely has no Menu key, much less a Hamburger key.
bombela 3y ago
back when you could actually use a GUI with a keyboard... those were the days.
- chrismorgan 3y ago
  My computer use is heavily keyboard-driven. I don’t find it common to encounter things that are broken. Problems, sure (e.g. airlines’ date and airport selection dropdowns are pretty consistently poor, normally breaking basic usability stuff like “if I type MEL and then press Tab, I selected Melbourne, I didn’t throw away what I typed”; and improper killing of focus indicators is still stupidly common), but seriously with no extra or special software installed for the purpose, having no mouse would only slow me down in some places, without ruining anything for me.
chrismorgan 3y ago
Given the context here, however, I should note that the Menu key is purely equivalent to right clicking on what’s focused or selected or where the caret is in a text box, to open the context menu, which sounds fairly different from the Xbox controller’s Menu button (though I’ve never used it). As for the context menu, web pages should never touch it, and web apps shouldn’t often. I’m still sad about the death of <menu type="context"> which let you add to the native context menu. Now your only options as a web app are to leave the native context menu alone, or completely replace it, neither of which are great options, a lot of the time.

Also on the Amazon Fire Stick remote: https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51Da2Z+FTFL.jpg https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51Da2Z+FTFL.jpg

codetrotter 3y ago

Tbh the keyboards at the time when the hamburger menu first showed up had symbols quite different from the symbol of the hamburger menu. And at the moment that symbol still looks different in the same way. Perhaps eventually keyboards will begin to use the hamburger menu symbol on the menu key. Probably a few do already. But I mean most keyboards. And also the hamburger menu symbol is not so much different from all of the other “mystery meatballs” (as Lynda Weinmann called them, many many years ago) that we all know and love. Today I expect that most people will be able to recognise and know how to use the hamburger menu.

NoZebra120vClip 3y ago
My ThinkPad for Windows has no Menu key at all. Needless to say, my brand new Acer Chromebook definitely has no Menu key, much less a Hamburger key.

bombela 3y ago

back when you could actually use a GUI with a keyboard... those were the days.

chrismorgan 3y ago
My computer use is heavily keyboard-driven. I don’t find it common to encounter things that are broken. Problems, sure (e.g. airlines’ date and airport selection dropdowns are pretty consistently poor, normally breaking basic usability stuff like “if I type MEL and then press Tab, I selected Melbourne, I didn’t throw away what I typed”; and improper killing of focus indicators is still stupidly common), but seriously with no extra or special software installed for the purpose, having no mouse would only slow me down in some places, without ruining anything for me.

chrismorgan 3y ago

Given the context here, however, I should note that the Menu key is purely equivalent to right clicking on what’s focused or selected or where the caret is in a text box, to open the context menu, which sounds fairly different from the Xbox controller’s Menu button (though I’ve never used it). As for the context menu, web pages should never touch it, and web apps shouldn’t often. I’m still sad about the death of <menu type="context"> which let you add to the native context menu. Now your only options as a web app are to leave the native context menu alone, or completely replace it, neither of which are great options, a lot of the time.