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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).
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