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From: Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Safari 8.0 gripe
Date: 1 Aug 2014 15:29:08 GMT
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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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