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Rauno's Field Notes #2 (rauno.me)
acmnrs 3 hours ago [-]
> Our mitigation against context menu discoverability is to place the same actions in the detail view behind a regular dropdown menu.

This is a pattern I'd like to use myself and see more commonly—the context menu as a shortcut but not the only method makes a lot of sense as a balance between the average user and power users.

The only downside I see is that you're losing the browser's native context menu, but this is solved by behaviors like in Helium where `Shift+RightClick` forces the native menu[^1]. I'm not sure which other browsers if any implement that, however.

[^1]: https://nitter.net/heliumbrowser/status/2080218122674376708#...

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