Video: Developer Todd Kloots Talks about the YUI Menu Control

January 2, 2007 at 12:07 pm by Eric Miraglia | In Accessibility, Development, YUI Theater | No Comments

The YUI Menu Control has proven to be one of the most useful and important components of the YUI Library. It offers three different interaction styles:

Classic Menus: Classic menus, also known as "flyout menus", are vertically-aligned with submenus flying out to the side when an item is selected;
Context Menus: Context menus are classic-style menus invoked by performing a special triggering action, usually a right-click, on a target object;
Application-style Menus: Made familiar in the desktop software paradigm, application style menus — or Menu Bars — consist of a horizontal row of menu items, each of which can trigger a classic-style (vertically aligned) menu when selected.

In this 25-minute video, YUI Menu Control author Todd Kloots introduces the Menu Control, its three supported interaction styles, and its common implementation patterns.

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