Re: onContextMenu Widget

> > I'm not convinced that a context menu would be the best approach
> > from a useibility standpoint in this case.
> 
> As an "advanced" user, anything that clobbers my context menu is going 
> to earn my never-ending ire. I just hate the gall of a web page that 
> assumes that it's in complete control of my experience. This might, 
> however, be more of an indication that I'm a control freak and less 
> of a strike against the proposed widget = )

Well, you guys have much more experience with web applications and their
users than me, but I am imagining that custom context menus might become more
widespread and accepted with more and more "real" web applications appearing. 

I am thinking of the average user for my application and am pretty sure that
these kind of people do not at all care about the nature of their context
menu. On the contrary, they will appreciate if they can save a few mouse
movements and clicks. The more the application resembles their desktop
applications, the better for them. 

> > I think generally that
> > users aren't familliar with context menues in a webpage and would
> > find a clickable table more intuitive along with a delete button of
> > some sort.

However, the "mark and press button" method is not really the same thing,
because the special thing of the context menu is that, as the name says, it is
contextual. So if I would like to create a button for each of the contextual
options that might be attached to a particular element of the page, the page
would have to be cluttered with buttons. 

Anyways, it is not a priority since I can use a "third party add-on" ;-) 
 
<snip> 
> > Be kind of hard to represent this one as a degradeable widget :)
> 
> That concerns me a little bit. I am, however, more concerned about the 
> usability consequences of over-riding the user's context menu.

What would the "average user" need the default context menu for in a
nw-Application?

But it is not so important after all if you don't like the idea. It was just
a suggestion.

C.

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