Talk:Menu bar

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[edit] Factor 5

Can someone please explain the factor 5? If the baseline time constant in fitts law is not completely neglegible this value seems out of place. Which assumptions were made? Are people really 5 times faster? Moreover, short movements are faster with fitts law so part of the difference in effective hight will be negated by smaller movement distance.

I have attributed that to Tog who, if not the source of the 5x faster claim, at least repeats it in an easily linked fashion. What I have not addressed is how important the 5x factor is, since we are almost certainly talking about fractions of a second here. What would be more interesting to me is a "frustration factor" caused by users clicking on something other than the intended menu bar. Probably impossible to quantify, but interesting nonetheless.--Not Important 10:24, 1 July 2006 (UTC)

Is Tognazzini an unbiased source? His page also states that "Fitts' law dictates that the windows task bar will constantly and unnecessarily get in people's way, and this is proven out." (?!) --Rennep 15:47, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Bad Article

This page doesn't define what a menu bar is. It simply defines how the Mac and Windows operating system implements them. This is both uninformative and narrow-focused.

Fixed that a bit. --Kainaw ^(talk) 16:30, 29 June 2006 (UTC)