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by fratido 5095 days ago
In times of ever increasing mobile web usage dropdown menus should be abandoned since they rely heavily on the hover state which doesn't exist on touch devices.
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subsection1h 5094 days ago 

    dropdown menus should be abandoned since they
    rely heavily on the hover state
Not all drop-down menus are opened by hovering. Not even close.

Further, a menu with a responsive design, such as the following, negates the need to abandon anything:

http://jasonweaver.name/lab/flexiblenavigation/

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kimmel 5090 days ago
> Further, a menu with a responsive design, such as the following, negates the need to abandon anything:

> http://jasonweaver.name/lab/flexiblenavigation/

I ran some tests on this menu. It fails on android 2.3.x and 4.x. Also does it really need JS to function properly. No it doesn't, CSS already has all the features needed.

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