Re: Drop-down hotspots and usability

Subject: Re: Drop-down hotspots and usability
From: Lou Quillio <quillio -at- gmail -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2005 17:54:19 -0500


On Fri, 25 Mar 2005 07:53:33 -0800 (PST), A.H. <isaac840 -at- yahoo -dot- com> wrote:
> We're redoing our help system and have decided to
> use drop-down hotspots throughout most of our pages.
> Do hotspots deter or enhance readability?

Do "drop-down hotspots" refer to this sort of thing?

http://quillio.com/hisailor/

If so, I love 'em. They're not for everything, but they work well in
all cases where links are clearly identifiable. If there's no doubt
I'll get more information if I click [this], the fact that another
page/screen doesn't have to load to deliver it is all gravy. Gravy
for devs, too: all the content's in one page, and you can deliver a
simple page that gets no more cluttered than the user wants or needs
it to be.

Good stuff. Very simple with Javascript, CSS and XHTML. Beware the
more complex approaches. Once you've got the script (view source), as
long as each expandable option has a unique ID, you're done.

LQ

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