Talk:Context menu

message: Popup menu redirects here, but is actually something different: a popup menu is (roughly) a menu originating from someplace else than the menubar, while a context menu is a very specific application of a popup menu that deals with a secondary mouse button or key command. Could we separate the two inside this article or create a second article for popup menu? Comments? Peter S. 00:22, 27 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Agreed. Additionally the Macintosh, a "pop-up menu" is the proper term for what is usually known as a "drop-down list box" according to the UI guidelines.Exia 05:50, 14 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  The link to Popup Menu (disambiguation) appears to serve no useful purpose. 82.163.24.100 (talk) 13:31, 19 September 2010 (UTC)
replies: text:  There should be something about, or a link to, context menus in Web pages (as I would like to read it) - there is a contextmenu property, and it seems that replacement menus are possible. 82.163.24.100 (talk) 13:31, 19 September 2010 (UTC)

text:  Changed talk-section title from "Untitled" to something more appropriate: "Popup menu and Content menu are distinct concepts, not equivalents".  The article uses image of Mozilla browsers, wherein the old XUL/Overlay did indeed allow you to create context menus by using menupopup or later, popup, along with menuitem elements.  This may be one example of the confusion of the terms.  Popups as a concept are generally equivalent to the term "popovers", and have nothing at all to do with menus.  A popup or popover is merely content that is displayed on screen in association with a user-triggered event (the WebExtensions associates "popup" with a left-click on the "browser action" button, mouse over an "a" link or an "img" and you get a different type of minimal popup called a "tooltip" though that again is a distinct concept, some old XUL/Overlay icons would display info with no clicks), or even totally automated with programming (i.e. advertisement popups or popunders, though these are most often implemented in the form of a new window, but technically could be a popup on the same page).  I can't update based on 1st hand experience, but I hope this comment helps anyone doing research on how to fix up this page.Warp9pnt9 (talk) 16:53, 18 January 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: Popup menu and Context menu are distinct concepts, not equivalents

message: The cited reference does not say anything about calling it a "shortcut menu" in user documentation, it just says that in documentation they should always be referred to as a "context menu" - specifically not a "shortcut menu". Perhaps it has changed since the comment was first made here? If so, it should be updated now.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 212.159.33.35 (talk) 12:08, 2 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Microsoft recommended documentation term 

message: "Context menus first appeared in the Smalltalk environment on the Xerox Alto computer, where they were called pop-up menus; they were invented by Dan Ingalls in the mid-1970s." This sentence is proved in a fairly clear manner by the two provided references (albeit not perfectly). However, a citation is need to prove that NEXTSTEP further the pop-up menu idea. --75.71.229.53 (talk) 00:01, 23 January 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proof 

message: 1) ".. the context menu appears near the focused widget .." 2) Widgets/Command input/Adjustment handle, Button, Context menu .. 194.174.76.21 (talk) 11:22, 18 December 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  A Bit Of Circularity?