Milonic JavaScript Menu

As you may know, using menus globally throughout your site may require using URLs with site relative paths instead of document relative, such as these:
subimage="/graphics/arrow.gif";
or
aI("text=Menu Text;url=/dir1/dir2/index.htm;");

However, this technique causes problems when attempting to ...

Since I am a Contribute user, I have _CFix=1 to avoid problems. However, I have noticed that setting this property causes the milonic drop-down menus to appear behind html <select> menus in IE 6. The problem goes away when _CFix=0. This problem does not affect Firefox nor Safari - just IE. I am ...

FYI - I confirmed that these two issues related to menu-specific delays still exist in 5.730.

Marco

Yes, this indeed fixed the submenu opening problem. However, I've discovered two minor issues with 5.730PR related to menu-specific delays:

1. Menu item specific subimage no longer works (worked in 5.729)

I want to suppress the subimage for "hidden" submenus (long delays) so I specified "subimage ...

Andy wrote:Is there a URL where I can see that happen.

http://www.xenos.org/index-test.htm

Andy wrote:Also, does it happen on all browsers or is it specific to a browser?

Both Firefox and IE.

Marco

Andy wrote:Oops, I've just gone and release 5.729 and didn't see this.

Can you please confirm that this happens on 5.729 final release?

Confirmed. This is still a problem on 5.729 final.

The new menu specific delay works great! Thanks!!!

Marco

When quickly passing over a horizontal menu, its submenus open and stay open - even when the mouse is no longer anywhere near the menus. This occurs in both Firefox and IE. (horizontalMenuDelay=true)

This bug exists in 5.729 pre-release; 5.728 works correctly.

Marco

1. The dropdown menu bar hides behind the flash animation in Netscape browser 7.2. The same is working fine on Internet Explorer 6.0.


You must make the flash object transparent:

<object classid....>
<param name="movie" value="flash.swf">
<param name="quality" value="high">
<param name="loop ...

Just added a new property for version 5.729 due out soon.

Called opendelay, it allows you to specify an opening delay for a specific menu.

I'll get the Pre Release posted tomorrow.

Cheers,
Andy

I forgot to mention that this should be available as a menu item property instead of (or in addition ...

Wow, that's great! Thanks for the fast response!

Marco

Submenus tend to direct users to navigate to deeper levels instead of following the links on the parent menu. In certain cases, I don't want newbies browsing to deep levels since they would become confused.

So, I would like to "hide" certain submenus, causing new users to believe they have ...