Max,

I think its interesting and probably useful to power users, but not very discoverable, I wonder how many non-technical folks ever even right click on webpages...

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On Sat, Mar 22, 2014 at 3:52 PM, Shahyar Ghobadpour < sghobadpour@wikimedia.org> wrote:

No browsers except Firefox (and other Gecko-based ones) currently support the HTML5 contextmenu attribute. So, it works for their own Firefox addons site, but it isn't particularly useful for us.

--Shahyar

On Sat, Mar 22, 2014 at 7:47 AM, Max max@koehler-kn.de wrote:

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hey everyone, I just came across this cute little thing the folks on mozilla developer network are doing: They include links to their history and edit pages in the browser's context menu. https://www.dropbox.com/s/7xctszwdjvtui79/Screenshot%202014-03-22%2015.35.39...

Thought I'd share this.

best, max @awesomephant

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Some of us power-users are mouse and GUI aficionados. ;) Eg. I use this FF add-on, to remove unwanted elements from the context menu, and place my 3 custom searches at the top: http://menueditor.mozdev.org/ Like so: http://i.imgur.com/r49wiez.png

That said, I would be annoyed if a site started changing my context menu, without asking. This sort of adjustment would be well-suited to a Gadget or Preference, but not as a site-default. (Which I suspect is what Max intended, when he submitted the image/idea to the mailing list. :)

Quiddity

On 14-03-22 10:52 PM, Trevor Parscal wrote:

I would say that more technical people are even less likely to right click on a web page. They don't expect the context menu to provide options particular to the site out of experience and have developed shortcut key habits and simply have no need for the menu.

• Trevor

On Sat, Mar 22, 2014 at 10:38 PM, Jared Zimmerman <jared.zimmerman@wikimedia.org mailto:jared.zimmerman@wikimedia.org> wrote:

Max,

I think its interesting and probably useful to power users, but not
very discoverable, I wonder how many non-technical folks ever even
right click on webpages…

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On Sat, Mar 22, 2014 at 3:52 PM, Shahyar Ghobadpour
<sghobadpour@wikimedia.org <mailto:sghobadpour@wikimedia.org>> wrote:

    No browsers except Firefox (and other Gecko-based ones)
    currently support the HTML5 contextmenu attribute. So, it works
    for their own Firefox addons site, but it isn't particularly
    useful for us.

    --Shahyar


    On Sat, Mar 22, 2014 at 7:47 AM, Max <max@koehler-kn.de
    <mailto:max@koehler-kn.de>> wrote:

        hey everyone,
        I just came across this cute little thing the folks on
        mozilla developer network are doing: They include links to
        their history and edit pages in the browser's context menu.
        https://www.dropbox.com/s/7xctszwdjvtui79/Screenshot%202014-03-22%2015.35.39.png

        Thought I'd share this.

        best, max
        @awesomephant