[Zope] OT: drop down menus

Michael Lewis michael@nichestaffing.com
23 Sep 2002 14:28:07 -0600


Works with NS4+, IE4+, NS6+, Konqueror2.2+, Opera5/6, and Moz06+ and
Galeon

http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamicindex1/topmen3/index.htm

Michael


On Mon, 2002-09-23 at 13:55, Tim Hicks wrote:
> Sorry for the off-topic subject, but I figure there are a fair few 
> people on this list who have experience/interest in this.  It's quite a 
> common feature of websites.
> 
> I'm trying to find the most cross-platform, and most gracefully 
> degrading drop-down/pop-out menu system.
> 
> The solutions I've found and come up with so far are:
> 
> - http://www.brainjar.com/dhtml/menubar/
> 	Has problems and strange behaviour in Konqueror.  It half works, 	which 
> is worse than not working at all as it leads to very 			ungraceful 
> degradation.
> 
> - http://www.brothercake.com/dropdown/
> 	Hasn't failed so far.  Seems a good choice.
> 
> - Flash menus
> 	Can be pretty certain about how they'll look in all browsers, 			and 
> with some flash-sniffing, you can make other arrangements 			when necessary.
> 
> - http://www.webreference.com/dhtml/hiermenus/
> 	Doesn't seem to work at all well in Konqueror.
> 
> 
> At the moment, I'm leaning towards the Brothercake widget as my designer 
> sees problems with having potentially 'very tall flash movies' when 
> there are lots of items in the drop down.
> 
> Has anyone used any of the approaches I mention above?  Please share 
> experiences.  Got any other ideas?
> 
> cheers,
> 
> tim
> 
> 
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