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Breaking down Amazon's mega dropdown

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Re: Breaking down Amazon's mega dropdown

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That's quite clever. I've played with the amazon widget quite a bit and it seems to work as intended too. Are there desktop widget toolkits that implement that behaviour? At a glance it seems GTK at least does not.

GTK3 does (verified with emacs-gtk3 and gnome-system-manager).

Re: Breaking down Amazon's mega dropdown

#15
post #11

For comparison to native applications: - Firefox 19 uses the delay technique - GTK3 uses the triangle technique - Tk 8.6 does what bootstrap does - I can't figure out what Qt 4 does

Cocoa seems to be using the triangle technique + a delay, FWIW: a submenu will close instantly when navigating vertically or to the opposite direction, but there is a lot of leeway when navigating in the triangle towards the submenu (eyeballing it, seems to take more than half a second for the submenu to close). And interestingly, you can also "overshoot" the submenu, it will delay its closing quite a bit when moving around/outside of it.

> - Tk 8.6 does what bootstrap does

Which is?

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