RE: [WSG] newbie with popup menus question

2005-02-02 Thread Devendra Shrikhande
: [WSG] newbie with popup menus question On Fri, 21 Jan 2005 16:06:27 -0700, Devendra Shrikhande [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Till now I have been using Fireworks to create popup menus for web sites. Just saw this, looks like there were never any replies... Devendra, if you're still listening

Re: [WSG] newbie with popup menus question

2005-02-01 Thread Kay Smoljak
On Fri, 21 Jan 2005 16:06:27 -0700, Devendra Shrikhande [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Till now I have been using Fireworks to create popup menus for web sites. Just saw this, looks like there were never any replies... Devendra, if you're still listening, Fireworks menus are actually really bad,

Re: [WSG] newbie with popup menus question

2005-01-22 Thread David R
Andreas Boehmer [Addictive Media] wrote: Well, the dropdowns won't show up if Javascript in IE is turned off. There is a workaround Set the CSS to show the drop-downs by default (as a horizontal list... so it doesn't skew the layout as much), then have JavaScript to change the class to the

Re: [WSG] newbie with popup menus question

2005-01-22 Thread David R
Andreas Boehmer [Addictive Media] wrote: I don't know much about the code created by Fireworks, but I am sure somebody else can comment on that for you. 33KB Generated JavaScript library included, a required download for the menus to work. Fireworks creates a table using images or font formatted

[WSG] newbie with popup menus question

2005-01-21 Thread Devendra Shrikhande
Title: Message Hello I am a newbie (to web standards) and have been inspired by Zeldman's "Designing with Web Standards". Till now I have been using Fireworks to create popup menus for web sites. Would welcome feedback from this group on: 1- How do the popup menus from Fireworks

RE: [WSG] newbie with popup menus question

2005-01-21 Thread Andreas Boehmer [Addictive Media]
with popup menus question Hello I am a newbie (to web standards) and have been inspired by Zeldman's Designing with Web Standards. Till now I have been using Fireworks to create popup menus for web sites. Would welcome feedback from this group

Re: [WSG] newbie with popup menus question

2005-01-21 Thread The Bo$$
Well, as they say, if you have to use dropdowns you should probably rethink your site structure. The ALA article Andreas mentioned is actually not that good, since it is still totally inaccessible to IE users with Javascript turned off. There are no good alternatives on the web (yet), so I don't

RE: [WSG] newbie with popup menus question

2005-01-21 Thread Andreas Boehmer [Addictive Media]
-Original Message- From: The Bo$$ [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, 22 January 2005 2:59 PM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: [WSG] newbie with popup menus question Well, as they say, if you have to use dropdowns you should probably rethink your site structure