[thelist] Moving Menu Items

Barney Carroll barney.carroll at gmail.com
Tue Mar 24 15:57:50 CDT 2009


Jess,
If you work out exactly what it is that's needed and tell us what
environment you're working in and with what markup, we can probably give you
a guiding hand.


Regards,
Barney Carroll
Web designer & front-end developer

w: www.clickwork.net

t: +44 (0) 7594 506 381


2009/3/24 j s <jslist at sbcglobal.net>

>
> I will definitely look at jquery - Now my boss just sent a msg about the
> "Mega Dropdown Menus"  like on foodnetwork.com
>
> I'm on a short time line and I'm just trying to get ahead of the curve.
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Barney Carroll <barney.carroll at gmail.com>
> To: "thelist at lists.evolt.org" <thelist at lists.evolt.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, March 24, 2009 2:59:50 PM
> Subject: Re: [thelist] Moving Menu Items
>
> Associating an Ajax call with the action is no problem — but if you want to
> build this whole thing from scratch with all these fancy asynchronous
> javascript effects and have little experience of javascript, I would
> strongly recommend jQuery [http://jquery.com], because it makes operations
> like this very easy to find in their documentation [
> http://docs.jquery.com/]
> and write. It would then be easy to write some mathematical calculations
> for
> positioning animation to get the menu items to slide rather than jump into
> place, change the colour in a transition, etc.
>
> Regards,
> Barney Carroll
> Web designer & front-end developer
>
> w: www.clickwork.net
>
> t: +44 (0) 7594 506 381
>
>
> 2009/3/24 j s <jslist at sbcglobal.net>
>
> >
> > Hassan - take your grouchy pill this morning?
> >
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message ----
> > From: Hassan Schroeder <hassan.schroeder at gmail.com>
> > To: "thelist at lists.evolt.org" <thelist at lists.evolt.org>
> > Sent: Tuesday, March 24, 2009 2:03:59 PM
> > Subject: Re: [thelist] Moving Menu Items
> >
> > On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 10:43 AM, j s <jslist at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> > >
> > > Yes I was trying to talk him into the accordian style or the tree
> style.
> > > But the boss is always right :-(  especially in this job mkt....
> >
> > Wrong is always wrong, regardless of the job market :-)
> >
> > > There's nothing like what I was talking about in AJAX - is there?
> >
> > There's nothing "in" AJAX at all. AJAX is simply an acronym for the
> > technique of using JavaScript to communicate with a server outside
> > of a standard browser-initiated HTTP page request.
> >
> > There is nothing about what you're trying to do that requires any such
> > interaction. But a JavaScript library like JQuery, Prototype, Dojo, etc.
> > may make it easier to develop what you want -- well, what your boss
> > thinks he wants :-)
> >
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