On 09/11/10 20:39, Jeremy Nickurak wrote:
Yes, they are, and hence the need to think this through carefully. The calculus was that the normal user flipping between menus is running along the "top" item in the menu. If they've come all the way down to the playback controls, left and right can reasonably be interpreted as "next/previous track" rather than "go to the menu left or right of the sound menu". That's a tradeoff, but it's a calculated one rather than an accident. The movement in the focus (briefly to the next/previous button, then back to the play/pause button) should make this explicit. We faced a similar, harder, problem with the Me Menu. The top entry there is a broadcast textbox. That used to trap focus, meaning that left and right were interrupted. We said left/right there should jump to the next menu if the textbox was empty, to resolve that issue. I'm saying: we don't have a full, complete, definitive guideline, only a guideline to think through this and try to balance common patterns and behaviours, backed by user testing. Mark |
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