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1. crtasm ◴[] No.44476518[source]
Fig.1 doesn't look like a drop-down menu - is the term really used for that style?
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2. zahlman ◴[] No.44476581[source]
The only thing that seems wrong about it to me is that it's above the point where the user clicked rather than underneath; and that's only because that point is near the bottom of the screen.
3. nsriv ◴[] No.44476590[source]
I have had to explain it as such while teaching kids to use Zoom over the pandemic, and yeah one of the first things I got was "it's a drop up menu!"
4. chrismorgan ◴[] No.44477559[source]
The term “popover” has been gaining popularity in the last decade or so, as a superset of dropdowns. HTML adopting the term a couple of years ago has helped with this.