- 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 doesBreaking down Amazon's mega dropdown
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Re: Breaking down Amazon's mega dropdown
#12That'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.
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#13Re: Breaking down Amazon's mega dropdown
#14I seem to recall this same technique being used in the pre-OS X era of the Mac OS. Not sure exactly how far back, but I'd say at least into System 8 if not System 7.
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#15For 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
> - Tk 8.6 does what bootstrap does
Which is?
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#16Maybe I'm just cynical, but this seems like the kind of thing they would have patented (not that it deserves a patent, just that they would have applied for one).