[Laszlo-dev] Questions about context menu support in DHTML

[Max Carlson]

The menu is just straight-up HTML, so if you want to get Peter involved 
we could do something really nice!

-Max

David Temkin wrote:
> It's not bad,  but I would like to see a design pass before release.
> 
> how is the menu's look composed? does it have images, or...?
> 
> On Jan 26, 2007, at 1:59 PM, Max Carlson wrote:
> 
>> Hi Folks!
>>
>> As far as I can tell, there isn't a way to change the items in a 
>> browser's native context menu like you can in Flash.  However, it's 
>> fairly straightforward to disable the native browser context menu and 
>> display something else in its place when the user clicks the 
>> right-mouse button.
>>
>> Since we can't do native context menus, what should they look like? 
>> Here's an example with a really simple visual appearance:
>>
>> http://www.webmonkey.com/webmonkey/05/10/stuff/active2.html
>>
>> I'll do something simple along those lines unless someone objects.
>>
>> One issue with disabling context menus is that it shuts users out of 
>> being able to use browser features listed there.  Then again, context 
>> menu options are usually (and should be) accessible elsewhere in the 
>> browser UI so maybe that's not such a big deal...
>>
>> --Regards,
>> Max Carlson
>> OpenLaszlo.org
> 

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Regards,
Max Carlson
OpenLaszlo.org