Wow. Thanks very much for the lightning fast response! I had heard of superfish, never honestly never played with it (or many other jQuery plugins that I'd really like to) since work keeps me pretty busy. Will check out your plugin immediately! Again, thank you!
On Oct 11, 8:25 pm, "Joel Birch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Mike, > > The Superfish plugin creates menus like this. It also has a few of > important features that the Squirrelcart menu does not: > - It degrades gracefully when JS is not available, in which case it > falls back to a pure CSS dropdown menu ala suckerfish. This means > search-engines can index the pages the menu links to, unlike with the > Squirrelcart menu. > - The ability to navigate the menu via the keyboard (Tab forwards, > Shift Tab backwards) is retained for browsers that support it in the > first place. > - There is a timed delay on mouseout of the menu before the submenus > collapse. This forgives mouse piloting errors and makes using the menu > much easier. > - Automatic usage of the hoverIntent plugin if it is present on the > page makes the action of the submenus even more intelligent. This is > not necessary, but is a nice option. > > A big part of the reason that I created Superfish was because I saw so > many dropdown menus that neglected these features and encouraged the > view that dropdowns are bad for usability and accessibility. They > still could be, but at least Superfish solves a few of the down-sides. > > Other jQuery options are jdMenu, which I hear good things about but I > am quite unfamiliar with it and it's current state of maintenance. > Also, I believe there are menu widgets under development for the UI > library. > > Joel Birch.
