[thelist] HierMenus

[Elizabeth Hincks]

Hi Peter-Paul
    I had pretty good luck with the dreamweaver solution ...there is a tutorial at
www.projectseven.com called "dropdown flyout" menu.
Also there is a software solution which you can purchase which is supposed to write the
DHTML code required for the drop down menus...not sure how well it worked.  Let me know
if you want more info.
Liz
www.zolabola.com

Peter-Paul Koch wrote:

> >I sure all of you have heard or seen the HierMenus DHTML menu script in
> >action. One question though - have any of you experienced any NN random
> >crashes while using this script? Is there a workaround? Or does anyone
> >know of an extremely stable cross-browser DHTML menu solution?
>
> Don't know the script, but I assume it uses lots and lots of layers.
> Netscape 4.5 and 4.6, especially, are very vulnerable to too much layers
> (sometimes combined with lots of style sheets).
>
> As a rule of thumb, don't use more than about 10 layers on a page, and even
> then NN4 may crash. Generally the crashing danger is less in NN4.05 and
> before and NN4.7x (but this is of course only a *general* rule).
>
> When you have implemented such a script, do the Resize test by loading the
> page into NN4, resizing it at least 5 times and see how the page holds up.
> If the browser crashes, repeat the test, if it crashes on three consecutive
> tests the script is definitely dangerous and should not be used.
>
> ppk
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Elizabeth L. Hincks
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