[FX.php List] [OFF?] Data driven dynamic menus

[Jonathan Schwartz]

This looks great.  Will give it a try. Thanks Kevin!

Jonathan


>On 13/11/06 2:31 AM, "Jonathan Schwartz" <jonathan at eschwartz.com> wrote:
>
>>  Actually, I was looking for the javascript-like expanding navigation
>>  pop up menus. That's the challenge.
>>
>>  I have looked at Milonic.com and it looks like the right direction.
>>
>>  At the moment, javascript isn't in my bag of tricks.....yet. ;-)
>>
>>  J
>
>Jonathan, you could always use a more accessible approach that doesn't rely
>on JavaScript, such as the Son of Suckerfish menu - it's simply positioned
>CSS menus, with a small amount of JavaScript to make it work properly in
>IE6, due to its brain-dead support of pseudo-classes. As with anything, you
>can easily populate the menu with dynamic data from a database.
>
>http://www.htmldog.com/articles/suckerfish/dropdowns/
>
>Bear in mind that if you're not used to working with semantic markup, then
>the approach used here might seem strange at first, but standards-aware
>developers have been using lists for navigation for quite a while now.
>JS-only solutions are generally frowned-upon these days for their
>accessibility problems.
>
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