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Details On Demand

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How

Isn't even a fly-out menu an instance of this pattern? sort of a Retractable Menu

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Motty Porat, 21st January 2010
The comment in How is wrong IMHO. The Fly-out/Retractable menus are good for navigation, where the user sees the menu briefly and chooses one action/link. Whereas Details-on-demand are used when the user wants to read the larger info thoroughly or use it for numerous actions.
The latter issue can be elaborated in the Why section.


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