Beyond the Desktop: mobile phone and tablet websites and apps
Unless you've been hiding under the proverbial rock, it's no surprise that the mobile web has exploded in the past year. It's a huge shift in the Internet landscape, and it changes the rules in a variety of ways.
We've put together a webinar to share some of our experiences creating mobile and table websites and apps. Our goal is to help designers create multi-platform solutions, making the best of phones, tablets, and computers.
The live webinar will be held on Thursday, Sept 1, at 11 am Pacific time. Webinar details and free registration.
Patrick Schutte of MI Windows & Doors, for which we recently built a website, mobile site, and iPad app, will co-present this webinar, using MIWD's real-world example to show how the platforms work together to create a marketing and sales solution that is much more powerful than a conventional website.
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Using dropdown menus on mobile devices, using JS
From: Martin Nørgaard Gregersen (mr noe graphic design), 09/ 9/11 09:39 AM
Dear Mr. Slater,
thank you for taking your time sharing a lot of knowledge and experience making Webinar and a useful newsletter that I have been receiving.
I have a simple comment on your thoughts on using dropdown menus on a UI on mobile sites, which was not to use it, because there is no hover-function on a touchscreen—granted, but there is another way:
I use JS on my dropdown menus to display the dropdown menu on BOTH hover and click. This way it will open on desktops on the hover-state and stay open on click.
The initial issue with this solution is that the dropdown menus stay open, which can be unwanted. How I solve this, is to use JS to close any dropdown when the user clicks anywhere else in the content area (a wrapper/content div fx) and if there's multiple dropdown menus, a click or hover will close/hide any dropdown currently open.
Hope this helps in any way to help any designer/programmer that loves using dropdown menus!
Best regards,
Martin Nørgaard Gregersen
mr noe graphic design—Berlin, Germany