[support] Dynamic Menus That Work OK Without Javascript

[Michelle Cox]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Randal" <digitas at panix.com>
To: <support at drupal.org>
Sent: Friday, June 16, 2006 7:03 AM
Subject: Re: [support] Dynamic Menus That Work OK Without Javascript


> At 1:08 PM -0600 6/15/06, Greg Knaddison - GVS wrote:
>>On 6/15/06, Randal <digitas at panix.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>It does look like they have broken styling on this site without 
>>>javascript, but the menus do still work.
>>
>>Maybe it's the definition of "work".  They don't expand out anymore,
>>but if you click on animals you get to the other links on a resulting
>>page.  If that's your goal then whether or not that "works" using the
>>Nice Menus module is dependent on your configuration of your site.
>>It's still possible using nice menus.
>>
>
> That is indeed my definition of work -- that you can actually use the 
> site.
>
> The site I mentioned ( http://steuben.com ) USED to have working CSS 
> without javascript, so you could use everything on the site except for the 
> dynamic menus without javascript. You can now still use the site, but it's 
> very ugly.
>
> My main problem with most dynamic menu systems (which I otherwise find 
> very useful and logical) is that they don't degrade gracefully when 
> javascript is turned off (which is still around 5% of users). On most 
> sites with dynamic menus you can't actually get to most pages without 
> javascript. This seems VERY BAD to me. This may be ok for amateur sites, 
> but not for a real professional one.
>
> I will look at Nice Menus to see how easily it can be hacked to do this. 
> Obviously what I need is a CSS statement written to the page (not in 
> javascript) that opens a specific menu section vertically when you are in 
> the section that that menu item represents.
>
> -- Randal
> -- 
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