hamburger icon

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The hamburger icon is a triple bar symbol (≡) commonly used to indicate a hidden navigation menu. Google has referred to this icon as "hotdog."

IndieWeb Examples

Chat archives

The IndieWeb discussion chat archives use a hamburger menu in the top left for narrower windows (including "typical" mobile web views).

• https://chat.indieweb.org/

Criticism

• 2015-05-16 BBC News: Hamburger icon: How these three lines mystify most people
• 2014-01-27 Erin Jo Richey: UI Icons that Drive Me Crazy: The Hamburger (And The Hotdog) (Internet Archive link. Original offline: http://flatfrogblog.com/2014/01/27/ui-icons-that-drive-me-crazy/)

History

• It was first used on the Xerox Star in the early 1980s
• 2014-10-29 Antonio/Placeit Blog A Brief History of the Hamburger Icon

See Also

• UI
• navigation
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triple_bar
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamburger_button
• minimal svg for the icon https://css-tricks.com/snippets/svg/svg-hamburger-menu/