Wednesday, July 02, 2008

Disabling Menu Item

A recent post by Joel Spolsky suggests to display the reason why the menu item is not accessible by the user.

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2008/07/01.html

I disagree.

The reason is, this kind of behavior would confuse the user more than disabling the menu item.

I would go with the recommended approach of hiding the menu item entirely as the user would not see the item and he would not be concerned about it anyways.

Cookies, anyone?

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