Rauno's Field Notes #2
by acmnrs on 7/25/2026, 4:39:55 PM
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by: acmnrs
> Our mitigation against context menu discoverability is to place the same actions in the detail view behind a regular dropdown menu.<p>This is a pattern I'd like to use myself and see more commonly—the context menu as a shortcut but not the only method makes a lot of sense as a balance between the average user and power users.<p>The only downside I see is that you're losing the browser's native context menu, but this is solved by behaviors like in Helium where `Shift+RightClick` forces the native menu[^1]. I'm not sure which other browsers if any implement that, however.<p>[^1]: <a href="https://nitter.net/heliumbrowser/status/2080218122674376708#:~:text=shift%20+%20right%2Dclick%20to%20force%2Dopen%20a%20context%20menu" rel="nofollow">https://nitter.net/heliumbrowser/status/2080218122674376708#...</a>
7/25/2026, 5:06:16 PM