Re: Navigation Lists

After attempting to create drop-down menus like yours without any new
elements, even after using both XHTML and XML documents, and failing,
I have decided that perhaps it would be quite useful for a predefined
navigational menu to be added.
A dynamic navigation menu, <nm>, could be used to create a menu
effect. As many authors might not have any use for a multilevel
navigation menu, due to the fact that it depends on the author's
purpose, it would need to be an optional element as opposed to a
required element. The <nm> tag would act as a container for the next
menu level. An example of such a document would be the XML document
which you attached in your last message. The <drop-down-menu> tag you
created is the same as my <nm> tag. I simply renamed it for the
purpose of making the pattern more consistent (e.g. <nl><nm> is
consistent in a similar fashion to <tr><td>).
A possible attribute for this element might be "axis". The values
might be 'vertical' or 'horizontal' depending on whether a
drop-down/vertical menu (like a browser menu) or a horizontal menu
(like in the XML document) would suit an author's purpose better. I
did notice a problem with the menus, however. The menus are spaced too
far apart which made it hard to navigate.

menu>drop-down-menu>menu-item>menu>drop-down-menu{
	top:-.375em;
	left:6.25em;}

In the above declaration, 'left' should be set to "6.2em" rather than
"6.25em". Otherwise, the menus collapse if you don't move the mouse
quickly enough to a drop-down-menu item.
I hope that something similar to this idea is implemented in the
future. No hacks or scripts would be necessary for Internet Explorer
(hopefully) to be standards-compliant with this module if this is
used.
Authors should be allowed to control how the menu looks using CSS of
course. After all, who would want to create a dynamic navigation menu
when the colors are controlled by the system while the rest their site
is quite "flashy" and astoundingly pleasant to the eye of a viewer?

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Received on Sunday, 10 October 2004 19:46:05 UTC