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Re: Safari 8.0 gripe

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On 2014-08-01, Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> wrote:
> In article <c41pdpF5il7U1@mid.individual.net>,
>  Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> wrote:
>> On 2014-08-01, Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> wrote:
>> >
>> > What's the disadvantage of doing it with a popup menu?
>> 
>> As Michelle already mentioned, some of the items in that pop-up menu
>> often result in "page not found" errors, probably because the items
>> don't always have a 1-to-1 correlation with actual web pages on the site
>> in question, but are more of a simple dissection of the full textual URL
>> to the page you are viewing at the time.
>
> You have the same problem if you do it by editing the URL. That's 
> neither an advantage nor a disadvantage, it's a draw. Unless you think 
> the existence of something on a menu is supposed to imply that selecting 
> it will do something useful.

I can only speak for myself, but yes, I do have the expectation that
selecting a menu item will do something useful.

You're right that hand-editing the URL could result in the same problem.

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JR

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Safari 8.0 gripe Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> - 2014-07-30 13:29 -0700
  Re: Safari 8.0 gripe Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-07-31 00:09 +0000
    Re: Safari 8.0 gripe Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> - 2014-07-30 17:24 -0700
      Re: Safari 8.0 gripe Savageduck <savageduck1@{REMOVESPAM}me.com> - 2014-07-30 18:16 -0700
        Re: Safari 8.0 gripe Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-07-31 02:00 +0000
          Re: Safari 8.0 gripe Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-07-31 04:18 +0000
            Re: Safari 8.0 gripe Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> - 2014-07-30 21:38 -0700
              Re: Safari 8.0 gripe Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-07-31 16:02 +0000
                Re: Safari 8.0 gripe Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> - 2014-07-31 18:22 -0400
                Re: Safari 8.0 gripe Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> - 2014-07-31 21:10 -0700
                Re: Safari 8.0 gripe Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> - 2014-07-31 21:09 -0700
                Re: Safari 8.0 gripe Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-08-01 04:21 +0000
                Re: Safari 8.0 gripe Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> - 2014-07-31 22:45 -0700
                Re: Safari 8.0 gripe Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-08-01 14:01 +0000
                Re: Safari 8.0 gripe Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> - 2014-08-01 11:00 -0400
                Re: Safari 8.0 gripe Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-08-01 15:18 +0000
                Re: Safari 8.0 gripe Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> - 2014-08-01 11:22 -0400
                Re: Safari 8.0 gripe Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-08-01 15:29 +0000
                Re: Safari 8.0 gripe Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> - 2014-08-01 08:36 -0700
                Re: Safari 8.0 gripe Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-08-01 15:46 +0000
                Re: Safari 8.0 gripe Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> - 2014-08-01 08:57 -0700
                Re: Safari 8.0 gripe Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-08-01 16:06 +0000
                Re: Safari 8.0 gripe Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> - 2014-08-01 17:41 -0400
                Re: Safari 8.0 gripe Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-08-01 22:03 +0000
        Re: Safari 8.0 gripe Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> - 2014-07-30 20:20 -0700
  Re: Safari 8.0 gripe Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2014-08-01 15:25 +0000
    Re: Safari 8.0 gripe Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> - 2014-08-01 08:44 -0700

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