Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] HTML_TreeMenu-1.0 (stable)Released.

On Mon, 17 Jun 2002, Richard Heyes wrote: > Michael Dransfield <mike@blueroot.net> wrote: > > > Personally I think that using DHTML in PEAR exts is not a problem > > _as_long_as_ people write it for MODERN browsers (eg v.5+). It should > > DEGRADE for other browsers, showing the same information and still allowing > > > browsing of the site. TreeMenu can degrade by showing all of the trees > > open by default. If someone decides to extend the class later on so that > > it 'works' in NS4 then good for them, personally I dont concider rewriting > > > everything else again worthwile just for the 0.01% of the _public_ that > > actually uses the bloody thing. > > > > I think that we should say that any DHTML being contributed to PEAR should > > > work on all modern browsers and degrade in text based ones... Thats not too > > hard is it? Don't forget; links v2 (a text-mode browser) has javascript too ;). I'm personally more in-favor of server-side menus, but that's why there's a choice. That said, the name TreeMenu doesn't really convey what this is; a functionally equivalent TreeMenu could exist without the use of DHTML. So, why not call this HTML_JSMenu, or DHTML_Menu or somesuch thing. It's not really HTML that is the magic word here. Just a suggestion. - Brent