[support] Dynamic Menus That Work OK Without Javascript

[Larry Garfield]

The only way I know of to make IE behave correctly without Javascript is to 
use .htc files.  They are basically an officially supported IE-only feature 
designed to let people fix IE bugs on a site-by-site-basis, rather than MS 
actually fixing the browser directly. :-)

Some resources on .htc files:

http://www.aplus.co.yu/adxmenu/intro/
http://webfx.eae.net/
http://www.xs4all.nl/~peterned/csshover.html

On Saturday 17 June 2006 07:50, Michelle Cox wrote:
> [Sorry for the previous blank email. Mouse issues.]
>
> According to the nice menus documentation, JavaScript is only needed on IE.
> So if you can find a way to make IE work without it, there you go.
>
> Michelle
>
>
> ----- 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
> > --
> > [ Drupal support list | http://lists.drupal.org/ ]

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