Joel Spolsky says don’t:
Instead, leave the menu item enabled. If there’s some reason you can’t complete the action, the menu item can display a message telling the user why.
I thought it was pretty common knowledge that users don’t read message boxes. Anyway, I’m squarely in the disable-menu-items-that-aren’t-applicable camp, and I never hide items. Take the [...]
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Jul 02 2008, 12:01 AM
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