Apple's Website Redesigned With New Drop-Down Menu Bars and More

[cocoua]

drop-down menus are the virus of the UI.

It looks like Apple love text and hate icons. thanks God in iOS icons are a big deal and macOS is going to iOS, because it has no sense to have dull icons in the Finder sidebar (beyond visual beauty OCD in Apple's UI lead designer) and for sure, it has no sense to have a drop-down menu in such an important area as is buying a mac.

Good luck new users finding your best option though text.

Next step, command line UI for everyone (that's what the Dark Theme is here for!! get used to dark screens again, then text and code for everyone)

Learn to read, forget quick access with the help of colors and shapes.

Long life to text traffic signals!!! they are visually coherent and uniform. The world would be beautiful.

 

[Canubis]

That behavior does not happen for me on my computer. Are you sure it’s not a bug exhibited by the use of an older version of macOS and Safari? Newer versions of Safari support newer CSS rules and features that aren’t supported on older browser versions and could potentially cause problems like rendering or display issues, or even issues where display elements could accidentally trigger when using said older browser versions.

Reason I’m saying this is because I saw the edit you made on the post I originally replied to, in order to mention Stop The Madness, and I saw that you’re using a pre-Big Sur version of macOS, where it still had the less thick and more gradient-y button controls.

It's the same behavior in latest Chrome and Firefox.
Likely depends on how you use the navigation. I.e. if you use it as before this flyover update, click e.g. "Mac", then wait & rest your mouse cursor for the Mac overviewpage to load, only then move the cursor the flyover menu gets triggered before you can select any of the Mac icons. If you immediately move away your cursor from the navigation bar after clicking on "Mac" the flyover likely won't trigger.
But let's not go the "your're holding it wrong" route. I am doing UI, UX and web dev for a living myself and if (some) users don't "get" your design – plain & simple – the design is broken.

Btw, also on iPad – the usability got worse in my opinion. Just tried and noticed this now.
I click on "Mac" there to get the beautifully designed, detail-rich overview page of all Mac products. But what I get is the flyover menu with just a bunch of text (which is always takes more effort to parse for the brain than icons+text). I need to tap again on "Mac" to get to the Mac overview page, which isn't exactly obvious.
Not sure why they think it's a good idea on iPad to "block" users visiting their category overview pages with this flyover stuff.