#2798 - Make use of side vertical menus for responsive screens

By PDStig
Added 25th Aug 2016, 1:21 PM
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Identifier	#2798
Issue type	Feature request or suggestion
Title	Make use of side vertical menus for responsive screens
Status	Closed (rejected)
Handling member	Chris Graham
Addon	core_abstract_interfaces
Description	Many systems use a left-side vertical menu opposed to a top vertical menu for especially the admin and CMS zones. However, the systems that use this type of menu also use responsive design. I think Composr could benefit from having menus on the left side as a vertical menu / menu bar on responsive screens, such as the mobile interface (and especially on the mobile admin zone or CMS zone). It would be easier for mobile users to navigate with rather than having the menu at the top and dropping downward. Of course, this poses a problem for those using portrait mode on mobile devices. So perhaps screens under X width would fall back to the current menu style we have now (top menu, drops when clicked).
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Additional information	Best used for the Bootstrap theme
Related to	#2095 - Bootstrap theme
Funded?	No

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By Guest posted 25th Aug 2016, 1:21 PM

By Guest posted 27th Aug 2016, 7:58 PM

We currently do this on mobile mode for the frontend theme (not the admin theme I think), a responsive one would do this based on viewport size.

By Guest posted 31st Aug 2016, 12:49 AM

I probably should have clarified... using a vertical menu on the left side of the screen... not the kind of vertical menus Composr uses now (where it takes up the entire width of the screen and displays at the top rather than the side).

I've never seen Composr use a left-side vertical menu before.

By Guest posted 5th Sep 2016, 2:48 PM

I still need convincing on this. The 'selling points' seems to be to reduce scrolling for tablet users, but said tablet users aren't going to have large enough screens anyway unless in landscape mode, which most users won't be.

By Guest posted 5th Sep 2016, 8:47 PM

To be very honest, I haven't a clue on the technicalities behind this style. A lot of systems use the left side menu for when the screen is wide enough because it looks attractive and makes the menu less obtrusive. But as you said, the screen needs to be wide enough or the side menu will cram things.

By Guest posted 5th Sep 2016, 10:41 PM

Right, on that basis it's probably best to leave things as-is, because page weight is also a concern.

#2798 - Make use of side vertical menus for responsive screens

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