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Tjobbe
February 22nd, 2005, 12:53
I am re-coding someones site, namely: www.safaribead.com
and moving it over to a faster server.

its now at
http://callisto.genwebhost.com/~safaribe/ and I am having problems and errors with the menu at the top . when mouseover is on products, it should display a list but it wont happen in firefox, it gives errors in ie6 and in older i.e's it wont let you go past the first page.

can anyone see what the error is from their browser or would i have to paste the codes for all to see?

I have never really used javascript menu's so really have no idea what to look for.

thanks in advance for any advice.

Tjobbe

vigo
February 22nd, 2005, 14:20
JS menus are notoriously hard to get right, and harder to get them to meat accessibility standards. If you (or your client) can afford the 42 quid I'd pop over to the excellent udm4.com and give master brothercake some moolah (UDM4 is the first and only accessible, standards compliant, compatible-with-just-about-everything) dropdown menu).
It'll most likely save you a lot of time and money just buying a solution, like UDM4, I saved a packet of time when I used it on a charity site.

Tjobbe
February 22nd, 2005, 14:45
thanks vigo, i may just do that.

Corey Bryant
February 22nd, 2005, 19:44
The other one you also might check it is Son of Suckerfish Dropdowns (http://www.htmldog.com/articles/suckerfish/dropdowns/) as well.

vigo
February 22nd, 2005, 20:37
Suckerfish is lightweight (good) but doesn't really qualify as accessible, IMHO, because you can't tab through in graphics mode and have the menu displayed (you can with UDM). If speed is of the essance and you can cope with the crummy keyboard navigation then Suckerfish could be a solution.

Corey Bryant
February 22nd, 2005, 21:07
I use UDM myself, but someone pointed out Suckerfish a few weeks ago and I liked it as well just because it was light