Okay, I get that we all like to get away from content-panel-of-the-week–stuffed sidebars from here to Antarctica, and I appreciate the sentiment in reducing Computer Administrative Debris. Really, I do. But right now, I am in fact using a computer, and making navigation pop up only when you hover something is in fact one of the litmus tests of mystery meat navigation: “user interfaces (especially in websites) in which it is inordinately difficult for users to discern the destinations of navigational hyperlinks—or, in severe cases, even to determine where the hyperlinks are”.
I expected better from Dean Allen. I certainly expected someone else to call him on it.