Remove useClick feature?

[joeldbirch]

I'm regretting adding the useClick feature as it increases the complexity of the code and eats up development time that I'd prefer to spend focussing on hover events (plus touch and keyboard support, of course), which is truer to the mission of Superfish.

I think it would be a better idea to have a separate click menu plugin, allowing me to remove some complexity and bloat from Superfish and making room for further enhancements. I'm not seeing much benefit of having both click and hover capability in the one plugin, and the amount of if (o.useClick) {… forks that keep needing to be added is telling.

I'd really appreciate hearing some opinions on this.

[steffen-maass]

Hi,

I'm using your plugin on a number of sites and never used the click-feature, the recent improvements for touch-devices makes the click-feature even more redundant for me...

Long story short: I'm all for removing this... ;)

Best regards,
s-m

[joeldbirch]

Thanks for chiming in. Music to my ears!

[Spuds]

The unruly nature of the onclick is the reason I have not upgraded to the latest version .. and as you noted trying to support both and touch devices is causing some bloat and development pain.

I'd be fine seeing it removed and done as a separate plug-in for those folks that prefer click over hover (I let them choose since it was less work than arguing with em!)

[OxyFuse]

I'm in favor of this as long as touch is supported.

[allthosehumans]

I've found that even with the hoverIntent plugin people still find clicking easier than hovering especially on laptops. There are a few UX articles floating around about the caveats of the hover interaction.

If you can bare it, I wouldn't remove it. I do think moving it to a separate plugin would be fine though.

[joeldbirch]

Thanks very much for the feedback. useClick will be removed in version 1.7 (which is pretty much ready for release).

[Pushplaybang]

Know this is closed, but would be great to see this at least moved to a separate plugin, the click was one of my main reasons for my excitement in seeing superfish brought back into active development.

[joeldbirch]

Removing useClick has really cleared some roadblocks for me so I'm glad I did it in that regard, but I knew there would be some disappointment, so I'm sorry about that. I agree that it should be a separate plugin. I'm hoping someone interested enough will fork Superfish and rewrite the jQuery to solely use click. Maybe it could stay in sync with Superfish as much as possible and benefit from sharing CSS and such. Implementing the click functionality would be simple enough given that hovers and touch events won't need to be juggled.

[joeldbirch]

Okay, so I've created Superclick. I'll get it up on GitHub in the next day or so.

[joeldbirch]

Here is the Superclick repo.

[Pushplaybang]

nice.