HTML5 context menus in the wild: Twitter’s “Follow” button

Twitter’s “Follow” button has an HTML5 context menu [1]. The button below allows you to try it out. On Firefox, you get a context menu whose top three items are “Follow”, “@rauschma on Twitter” and “Tweet to @rauschma”. Alas, other browsers don’t support the customization of context menus, yet.

Follow @rauschma

jQuery contextMenu is a polyfill [2] that works on all browsers and uses HTML5 on Firefox. There are plans to parse HTML5, but they are waiting for a second HTML5 implementation before they do that.

References:

1. HTML5 context menus in Firefox 8+
2. What is the difference between a shim and a polyfill?