jQuery-menu-aim: directional menu aiming

[Jonathan Hung]

Hi everyone,

Earlier today I came across this interesting analysis of Amazon's menu
system and how they have managed to avoid the "whack-a-mole" menu syndrome
(where menus disappear because the mouse has hovered over another hoverable
element).

The person who did this analysis was also kind enough to create a jQuery
plugin to mimic the Amazon behaviour.  I think something like this may be
useful for some of our Fluid components (i.e. the volume slider on the FLOE
Video Player).

http://bjk5.com/post/44698559168/breaking-down-amazons-mega-dropdown

Quote from the article:
"As long as the cursor stays within that blue triangle the current submenu
will stay open. It doesn’t matter if the cursor hovers over “Appstore for
Android” momentarily — the user is probably heading toward “Learn more
about Cloud Drive.”"

- Jon.

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