does anybody know / remember the url of one of thise sites that has the menu that follows your cursor round the page as a small box, then when you click it opens up to be a navigation list?

was thinking that something like this could be very useful in overcoming some of the problems of cursor position on the page.

ie when clicked, it initially brings up four selections around where the click takes place. These could be home, sound control, navigation and favourites, for instance.

from this point the user selects which menu to browse, which then folds out vertically into a standard hierarchical menu, as can be seen on msnbc.com for indexing news stories (you might have to dnload a small app to get it to work).

if there's a way to get flash to extract the links in a users favorites folder and build them into the nav this also overcomes some of the problems with traversing sites.

was also thinking that if the position of the cursor is no longer needed for site navigation, then cursor movement can be more freely utilised for other forms of interaction in the site.

you'd also probably need to commit the cardinal sin of full screening to prevent cursors jumping outside the browser, so i guess we'd better include an exit option on the menu

that was a bit more of a brain dump than planned, but thoughts/comments appreciated.

ij