Evolt Hiermenus? (was Re: [thelist] Hiermenus is licensed now?)

[Burhan Khalid]

I wanna pitch in as well. I can write a OO browser sniffing script. Don't
know how useful that will be.

At 02:19 PM 3/6/02 -0800, you wrote:
> > How about an evolt hierarchical menu, that we could work on as a team?
> > Any takers?
> >
> > Nicole
>Nicole:
>
>I was working with an awesome programmer, Aaron Boodman (youngpup.net), to
>build this for me and to release into the open source back when Heir first
>announced their licensing desires. Following is my original brainstorm on what
>the project would feel like. Part of it was to build on the platform of his
>ypSlideOutMenus component. Unfortunately Aaron needed to concentrate on some
>other commitments before he could focus on mine, so I say let's tackle this as
>a group!
>
>Here was my original vision...
>
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>
>Pieces:
>Sniffer? (whaddya you think... To handle browser compatability?)
>Core JS Code
>XSL Parameter Translator/Transformation Library (the Transform code you've got
>is fine)
>
>Functionality:
>Cascading, hierarchical DHTML menu system
>Orientation, position, animation style, cascade offsets can be specified
>Panes can contain styled text or images
>Panes can snap to img size, fit to text or be pixel-specified
>Styled text panes have border, fill, class attributes
>Styled text panes can contain an iconic image at (x,y) position within the
>pane
>
>Images OR text panes can contain off state, rollover state, on state, disabled
>state
>Click event can call href, javascript:, and can trigger (and pass parameters
>to) a popup window
>Menus can be abs/rel positioned or be anchored to (on top of?) a static gif
>
>Pie-in-the-sky:
>Would be cool to have a fallback solution for non-compliant browsers
>(hence the
>browserdetect sniffer)...
>
>OK, that's a quick stab at it. I think you know where I'm coming from, right?
>It's really a big step up from SlideOut with some other functions
>intrinsically
>woven into the XSL.
>
>Oh: I'd also like to build a tool to render the xml once (on
>command, whenever I edit the menu structure's XML source or based on an event
>such as a database write, a changed mod date on a document... whatever) so
>I don't need a round trip through Transform.ASP each time,
>but I can build that myself. (By the way, have you seen
>APGen? http://www.webgecko.com It's awesome. I'm using it for
>an ecommerce site I'm building with some friends.)
>
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