Comments on: New Idiom Arriving

By: Rogier

Rogier — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 11:50:00 +0000

Another 2 examples of this:

http://www.eur.nl/ – done quite well
http://www.mimoa.eu – done horribly wrong

By: Felipe

Felipe — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 10:49:15 +0000

I don’t know how usable it is or how accessible it would be if implemented in a correct manner, but for now KLM.nl do nothing when used with a keyboard (focus and tab navigation) and use an obstrusive menu: “Loading menu…” is the only thing appearing when Javascript is disabled. The latter could easily be done in an unobstrusive manner.

By: Denns Koks

Denns Koks — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 21:28:47 +0000

Here another similair solutioin http://www.bnn.nl/

Also dutch. I’m almost certain i’ve seen it somewhere on a non-dutch site also. I like it very much, especially the way TNT implemented it (how the whole area resizes according to the length of the menu).

Anyway, have you already checked out the new site from adobe? I had to get used to it a little bit, but I absolutely love it!! Great implementation of flash (as always), and all just works sooo well. Such good websites are very rare.

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By: Rogier

Rogier — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 15:44:04 +0000

It’s indeed a interesting trend to follow. I can see it being derived from the so called doormat pattern: http://www.welie.com/patterns/showPattern.php?patternID=doormat

The bad thing about this idiom is that you can’t see, in the menu, on which page you are. Only by effectively using page titles and breadcrumbs it could become a good idiom.