Patent ID: 9720566
Date: 2017-08-01
CPC Classifications: G06F

Claim:
1. A method comprising: presenting one or more of a preview panel and a code view panel within a user interface, wherein the user interface is additionally configured to display a pattern menu panel permitting selection from a menu of predefined markup language patterns, and a navigation menu panel; detecting a first positioning of a user interface indicator corresponding to the user interface indicator entering and remaining within a target region of the user interface, the target region containing at least one dead zone, such that the first positioning is located outside the at least one dead zone, wherein a dead zone is a prescribed area at least partially within the target region that cancels the effect that is otherwise responsive to the user interface indicator entering and remaining in the target region when the user interface indicator is positioned within the target region and the dead zone; responsive to the first positioning, overlaying at least a portion of a user interface element that is the pattern menu panel or the navigation menu panel onto the user interface and presenting, on the user interface element, a user interface control for causing the user interface element to remain displayed at the same location if the user interface control is selected; and presenting the user interface based on whether the user interface control is selected.