Replacing DHTML Menus with XUL

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Why do restaurants have menus?

Why do restaurants have menus? 06/06/2004 09:39 AM

Just back from seeing the movie "Super-size Me" and it occurred to me that, in an age of limitedless wealth, cheap food, and universal private automobiles, nutrition is best not left to amateurs (i.e., us).  Consider the process of going to a restaurant.  You, a completely ignorant and probably somewhat fat person, walk in and they hand you a long menu of potential dishes.  For each dish the menu lists a tiny fraction of the ingredients but does not fully disclose sauces or overall calories.  Even if the content of each item were fully disclosed it wouldn't do most of us much good because most of us don't know how many calories are appropriate.  Finally there is the problem that everyone gets the same quantity of food.  If you're a 5'-tall woman and order "Chicken surprise" you get the same quantity of food as a 6'-tall man who orders the same dish.

Here's an idea for a restaurant...  You walk in and give them the following information:  (1) height, (2) weight, and (3) whether or not you have exercised today.  They come back to you with a few choices, e.g., "fish, chicken, steak, or vegetarian?"  You choose one of those and finally an appropriately-sized quantity of food shows up on your table.  This is, I think, how the $1000/day fat farms operate.  But in an age of computerization it doesn't seem as though it would cost a standard restaurant anything more to operate this way.

Thoughts?

[P.S.I went through a 3-month period in which I ate almost every meal at McDonalds.  This was in 1993 while driving to Alaska and back (see Travels with Samantha).  I was a graduate student and the 59-cent hamburgers, 99-cent chicken fajitas, and drive-thrus were hard to resist.  I was about 30 years old and a tiny bit pudgy when I started the trip.  I probably lost at least 5 lbs. during that period.  I didn't order fries or regular (sugar) Coke and I was riding my bike every few days.]

MOSe Menus

MOSe Menus 10/28/2003 11:06 PM
When in doubt, reload. I introduced my idea of MOSe, or Mozilla/Opera/Safari Enhancement about four months ago, with my Zen Garden submission mnemonic. It's time to take it further. With a strong nod to Eric Meyer's Pure CSS Menus,...

Mastering Menus

Mastering Menus 02/10/2004 02:46 AM
Just in case anyone missed it, Menu Master 1.1 is available. More info: Menu Master Download: Menu Master 1.1 Biggest...

Brain Sandwiches Still on Some Menus
(AP)

Brain Sandwiches Still on Some Menus
(AP) 01/16/2004 10:56 AM
AP - Fear of mad cow disease hasn't kept Cecelia Coan from eating her beloved deep-fried cow brain sandwiches.

Fixed Side Menus with CSS

Fixed Side Menus with CSS 02/08/2003 08:23 AM
"...emulating frames with CSS fixed property."

Getting More Out of the Query Context
Menus

Getting More Out of the Query Context
Menus 07/14/2004 01:31 PM

Dynamic drop-down menus

Dynamic drop-down menus 07/26/2004 05:37 AM
CNET Jul 26 2004 10:23AM GMT

Tab to select menus in Mac browsers

Tab to select menus in Mac browsers 06/05/2005 11:57 PM
I have repeatedly finding myself turning to the otherwise unused Windows box on my desktop for filling in online forms. The primary reason has been the Tab behaviour in Web forms: on Windows, you can tab between text fields, menus, radio buttons, et al; on Safari/Firefox on Mac, you skip the menus entirely and have to reach for the mouse and click. And this contextual switch is costly.

Now apparently this is "fixed" by enabling System Preferences > Keyboard & Mouse > Full keyboard access: "In windows and dialogs, press Tab to move the keyboard focus between: "Text boxes and lists only." Mea culpa.

I thought I'd clicked that long ago to no effect and a double-check finds that I was right. Despite the label "...and lists," it's only when you select "All controls" that tabbing to menus actually works in web forms. Mea culpa. Label culpa.

Replacing the battery

Replacing the battery 09/13/2004 10:43 AM
globetechnology.com Sep 13 2004 1:49PM GMT

Replacing Notepad Again

Replacing Notepad Again 05/01/2004 06:09 AM

When I replaced the silly Notepad last time, I switched to SciTE.  While SciTE was good, its UI was non-standard and the single binary packaging version had some irritating problems such as config file updating.  Still it was better and it's syntax hilighting was really helpful.

Now there is a better option: Florian Balmer's Notepad2 (via Omar Shahine).

Notepad2 seems to offer everything SciTE did and without having to live with it's weird UI.  And it also comes with source code if you need to make changes.

To install, you can follow Omar's directions or do the samething I did last time.  Here is a copy with appropriate changes.

How to replace Notepad.exe on Windows XP

Windows XP has file protection so Notepad.exe will get restored if you just replace the file with renamed Notepad2.exe.  Follow these steps:

1. Download Notepad2.zip, expand and rename Notepad2.exe to Notepad.exe
2. Save a copy of the original Notepad.exe somewhere.
3. Replace Notepad.exe in following three locations (order is significant):
    
   • %WINDIR%\System32\DllCache
   • %WINDIR%\System32
   • %WINDIR%
     
     *%WINDIR% is your Windows folder (i.e. C:\Windows)
      
4. Press Cancel when a warning dialog appears.

Replacing Text

Replacing Text 06/14/2004 10:47 PM

FAQ | Troubleshoot before replacing

FAQ | Troubleshoot before replacing 04/03/2005 03:44 AM
Philadelphia Inquirer Apr 3 2005 7:33AM GMT

DHTML '05

DHTML '05 01/06/2005 03:14 PM
Mapping, CERN, and the possibilities that the XMLHttpRequest method is opening up for the web this year.

10.3: Re-activate PTH menubar apps'
menus

10.3: Re-activate PTH menubar apps'
menus 02/10/2004 02:36 AM
A number of menu bar applications from PTH Consulting no longer display their menus in 10.3.x Panther. There is no official fix, as the company has joined with You Software and many beloved PTH apps are now unavailable for ...

10.3: New contextual menus available in
Adress Book

10.3: New contextual menus available in
Adress Book 11/06/2003 11:13 AM
I have noticed some new Address Book features that I don't think were available in Jaguar (at least, some of them). The new items are accessed by clicking on the heading title (home, work, etc.) in the address card itself. Th...

Mouseover Menus - a usability nightmare?

Mouseover Menus - a usability nightmare? 02/17/2004 12:04 AM
Yes, they've been trendy for over a year - but do those DHTML menu systems really work for website visitors?

DragThing gets enhanced contextual
menus, more

DragThing gets enhanced contextual
menus, more 04/26/2004 10:25 AM
TLA Systems has updated DragThing, the dock application for Mac OS X (10.2 or later), to version 5.1.1, which adds enhanced contextual menus, AppleScript support and speed improvements...

Create custom DVD menus using Toast 6

Create custom DVD menus using Toast 6 01/05/2004 09:51 AM
I had a hunch that the background design for menus in Toast 6 must exist as a tif or jpeg somewhere inside of the Toast package. I was surprised to find that, actually, it's a PSD (Photoshop) file -- and it's not just the ba...

Ask MacSlash: Resizing Contextual Menus?

Ask MacSlash: Resizing Contextual Menus? 05/04/2004 11:04 AM

Book Review: Usable Web Menus

Book Review: Usable Web Menus 06/26/2002 01:00 PM
Book review of the new glasshaus title, Usable Web Menus, authored by Andy Beaumont, Dave Gibbons, Jody Kerr, and Jon Stephens.

PHPComplete, Multiple Files, and Web
Menus

PHPComplete, Multiple Files, and Web
Menus 06/26/2002 01:01 PM

Arrays and Dynamic Menus for Your Site

Arrays and Dynamic Menus for Your Site 08/21/2002 08:02 AM

Drop-Down Menus, Horizontal Style

Drop-Down Menus, Horizontal Style 06/29/2004 08:56 AM
Multi-tiered drop-down menus can be a hassle to build and maintain -- especially when they rely on big, honking chunks of JavaScript. Nick Rigby presents a way to handle this common navigation element with a cleanly structured XHTML list, straightforward CSS, and only a few concessions to browser quirks.

10.3: Navigate contextual menus via the
keyboard

10.3: Navigate contextual menus via the
keyboard 11/02/2003 01:02 PM
While a contextual menu is open, typing the first letter of an item in the contextual menu will focus the cursor on that menu item.

Making Expanding and Collapsing Menus

Making Expanding and Collapsing Menus 02/20/2003 09:43 AM
If you want menus that can expand or collapse when a user clicks on it, this tutorial will show you how to do it.

Perception: Serving Up Menus For ESPN

Perception: Serving Up Menus For ESPN 05/08/2004 03:47 AM
"When we first opened up, people told us we were crazy. But we did it with three Macs and three guys, and Final Cut." By Nancy Eaton, Apple (via MyAppleMenu)

Space bar opens pop up menus in iCal

Space bar opens pop up menus in iCal 11/02/2003 07:37 PM
I haven't tried his any other apps yet, but when I was in the info window in iCal, I noticed that when I tabbed out of the last of the date fields, the highlight kept going into the pop-up menus below. After some experimentin...

Comparing and Replacing Strings

Comparing and Replacing Strings 06/06/2002 06:00 AM
In this month's Transforming XML column, Bob DuCharme gives us the ins and outs of string munging in XSLT, including string equality comparisons and search-and-replace operations.

Replacing eFax with MaxEmail

Replacing eFax with MaxEmail 04/04/2005 08:48 PM
Adam C. Engst (~820 words)

I'm not a fan of faxes. I fully admit they're useful on occasion, when the source material is on paper, or when a form must be filled out in pen and returned, often with a signature. But as a technology, fax has always bothered me, since it usually generates more paper than would otherwise be necessary. But, like it or not, being able to send and receive faxes remains an integral part of doing business today, so Tonya and I own a fax machine. It's acceptable for sending faxes when a PDF in email won't do, but we've never liked receiving faxes on it, since the print quality is lousy and, more important, allowing it to answer a phone line is always cause for annoyance, particularly given that it's necessary so infrequently.

Replacing Network Discovery

Replacing Network Discovery 12/30/2003 08:33 AM

Comparing and replacing strings
(XML.com)

Comparing and replacing strings
(XML.com) 06/06/2002 12:03 PM

Abra Grupp: Replacing The Sky

Abra Grupp: Replacing The Sky 10/28/2003 11:06 PM
"The only thing that made this possible was Mac OS X. Because it's a Unix-based language, we could continue to use all the scripts we had developed for 'Open Range' and other projects." By Bija Gutoff (Apple via MyAppleMenu)

Customize FileMaker Menus With Fast
Tasks

Customize FileMaker Menus With Fast
Tasks 11/18/2003 08:56 PM
By Alan Graham (O'Reilly Network via MyAppleMenu)

You Control easily creates custom menus
in OS X

You Control easily creates custom menus
in OS X 01/06/2004 09:13 AM
You Software today introduced You Control, a new utility designed specifically for Mac OS X that "makes it easy to create custom menus that provide fast access to your files and folders and put useful information at your fingertips."...

iVCD 2 adds menus, playlists to Video
CDs, more

iVCD 2 adds menus, playlists to Video
CDs, more 04/27/2004 05:36 PM
Mireth Technology unveiled iVCD 2.0 on Tuesday, a new version of their application for authoring Video CDs and Super Video CDs. The update adds the ability to include menus and playlists in Video CDs, a preview mode for encoded MPEG and more.

Strip My Work and Heat My Menus
(28-Jun-2004; 1.3K)

Strip My Work and Heat My Menus
(28-Jun-2004; 1.3K) 06/28/2004 09:40 PM

Zope Floating Menus by haqa on
2002/07/21

Zope Floating Menus by haqa on
2002/07/21 07/21/2002 04:33 PM

Stupid Web tricks: Dynamic drop-down
menus

Stupid Web tricks: Dynamic drop-down
menus 06/27/2004 03:23 AM
CNET Jun 27 2004 7:11AM GMT

DHTML TreeMenu 1.0

DHTML TreeMenu 1.0 03/13/2003 10:20 AM
A PHP class for generating DHTML menu trees from XML.
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