SIGIA-L Mail Archives: RE: SIGIA-L: DHTML and secondary navigat
RE: SIGIA-L: DHTML and secondary navigation
From: Andrew Stevens (andrew_at_4serendipity.com)
Date: Mon Apr 09 2001 - 00:41:36 EDT
Cristina wrote:
> If you
> go this way, you'll have to build very stable very unbreakable
> Dhtml, which
> is nigh-on impossible,
Very true. That's why it is always preferable to use 'canned' solutions,
since they frequently have been tested thoroughly. A great example of such
a prefabricated solution is Peter Belesis's Hierarchical Menus
(http://www.webreference.com/dhtml/column51/). Peter's menu scripts (which
work for Nescape 4.x/6, and IE 4.x,5.x(pc) and IE5(mac) ) are the basis for
DHTML menus on Northwest Airline's site. The menu's scripts are written by
a more than capable coder and the large user base provides valuable feedback
and bug reporting.
Also, the Northwest Airlines site (http://www.nwa.com/) shows how to make a
site with DHTML menus compatable with older browsers or those with
javascript disabled. They simply make each of the buttons a link to a
subcategory page that contains links to all of the pages in the menus.
Geoerge Olsen wrote:
> DHTML interfaces usually require a fair
> amount of JavaScript -- which can make for big pages.
Peter Belesis' script is less than 25k and is cached for all subsequent page
views, so you only have a significant performance hit on the first page
viewed.
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