Comments on: The sordid tale of mm_menu/fw_menu.js http://www.losingfight.com/blog/2006/08/11/the-sordid-tale-of-mm_menufw_menujs/ now with more sarcasm Wed, 20 Aug 2008 14:31:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: Step By Step Web Design Course Using Dreamweaver & Fireworks. | 7Wins.eu http://www.losingfight.com/blog/2006/08/11/the-sordid-tale-of-mm_menufw_menujs/#comment-35755 Step By Step Web Design Course Using Dreamweaver & Fireworks. | 7Wins.eu Sat, 14 Jun 2008 00:52:49 +0000 http://www.losingfight.com/blog/2006/08/11/the-sordid-tale-of-mm_menufw_menujs/#comment-35755 [...] on Adobe Labs at Creative ToolboxNotes on Design » Blog Archive » Quick Imaging in Dreamweaver CS3Safe from the Losing Fight » The sordid tale of mm_menu/fw_menu.js Tags web design macromedia dreamweaver adobe dreamweaver macromedia fireworks dreamweaver 8 [...] […] on Adobe Labs at Creative ToolboxNotes on Design » Blog Archive » Quick Imaging in Dreamweaver CS3Safe from the Losing Fight » The sordid tale of mm_menu/fw_menu.js Tags web design macromedia dreamweaver adobe dreamweaver macromedia fireworks dreamweaver 8 […]

]]> By: Frosty http://www.losingfight.com/blog/2006/08/11/the-sordid-tale-of-mm_menufw_menujs/#comment-34703 Frosty Mon, 07 Apr 2008 19:15:27 +0000 http://www.losingfight.com/blog/2006/08/11/the-sordid-tale-of-mm_menufw_menujs/#comment-34703 You can't polish a turd, but you can shape it into a chocolate bunny. You can’t polish a turd, but you can shape it into a chocolate bunny.

]]> By: Zev http://www.losingfight.com/blog/2006/08/11/the-sordid-tale-of-mm_menufw_menujs/#comment-27336 Zev Wed, 02 Jan 2008 20:18:35 +0000 http://www.losingfight.com/blog/2006/08/11/the-sordid-tale-of-mm_menufw_menujs/#comment-27336 Came by this article the same way *everybody* else has. Thanks for giving me a wonderful opportunity to procrastinate from fixing my menus. Came by this article the same way *everybody* else has. Thanks for giving me a wonderful opportunity to procrastinate from fixing my menus.

]]> By: artboy34 http://www.losingfight.com/blog/2006/08/11/the-sordid-tale-of-mm_menufw_menujs/#comment-25327 artboy34 Thu, 01 Nov 2007 13:58:34 +0000 http://www.losingfight.com/blog/2006/08/11/the-sordid-tale-of-mm_menufw_menujs/#comment-25327 Wow. I'm not going insane. What a relief! I have been losing the battle against drop-down menus here for some time, but now I have ammunition to use in the fight. You think you've mastered the code, and then the client opens your test site in an archaic browser set to a screen resolution that even the Blind Center finds unnecessarily large, and the two (yeah that's right… TWO) items in the one drop-down appear at the top left hand corner of the screen. Yeah, it's been one of those days. Thanks for the laugh, and timely info – I needed both! Wow. I’m not going insane. What a relief! I have been losing the battle against drop-down menus here for some time, but now I have ammunition to use in the fight. You think you’ve mastered the code, and then the client opens your test site in an archaic browser set to a screen resolution that even the Blind Center finds unnecessarily large, and the two (yeah that’s right… TWO) items in the one drop-down appear at the top left hand corner of the screen. Yeah, it’s been one of those days. Thanks for the laugh, and timely info – I needed both!

]]> By: Viki http://www.losingfight.com/blog/2006/08/11/the-sordid-tale-of-mm_menufw_menujs/#comment-23416 Viki Tue, 04 Sep 2007 11:54:46 +0000 http://www.losingfight.com/blog/2006/08/11/the-sordid-tale-of-mm_menufw_menujs/#comment-23416 I know its a very good script, but after searching the net for almost 5 hours, I cant find any information about how to configure the script, I need to reduce the gap between two vertical menus. plz publish a mm_menu.js with comment so that people like us can modify it to match their need. I know its a very good script, but after searching the net for almost 5 hours, I cant find any information about how to configure the script, I need to reduce the gap between two vertical menus.
plz publish a mm_menu.js with comment so that people like us can modify it to match their need.

]]> By: bt3of4 http://www.losingfight.com/blog/2006/08/11/the-sordid-tale-of-mm_menufw_menujs/#comment-22808 bt3of4 Mon, 20 Aug 2007 15:09:31 +0000 http://www.losingfight.com/blog/2006/08/11/the-sordid-tale-of-mm_menufw_menujs/#comment-22808 Interesting hate_menu posts. I was getting along with them, until I decided to road-map my entire site through the menu items. Turns out when you lose your mind like this, so does the code. Starts displaying the sub-sub-sub menus completely off the monitor. Was just looking to see if anybody had fixed this yet when I ran into this. funny indeed. Problematic for me, but funny nonetheless. Interesting hate_menu posts. I was getting along with them, until I decided to road-map my entire site through the menu items. Turns out when you lose your mind like this, so does the code. Starts displaying the sub-sub-sub menus completely off the monitor.

Was just looking to see if anybody had fixed this yet when I ran into this. funny indeed. Problematic for me, but funny nonetheless.

]]> By: Dreamweaver Menus…A Solution, and Then Some « Land of the Nancilla http://www.losingfight.com/blog/2006/08/11/the-sordid-tale-of-mm_menufw_menujs/#comment-19966 Dreamweaver Menus…A Solution, and Then Some « Land of the Nancilla Sun, 17 Jun 2007 20:13:03 +0000 http://www.losingfight.com/blog/2006/08/11/the-sordid-tale-of-mm_menufw_menujs/#comment-19966 [...] I began using Dreamweaver (first 8, and then CS3) to help me create a series of dropdown menus, with an applet directly underneath the navigation bar. Almost immediately, I ran into the problem of my dropdown menus appearing behind the applet instead of in front. I scoured the web for many days, searching for a solution, and mostly what I found were suggestions to rearrange the page so that the menus simply wouldn’t drop down in front of something (an answer I found to be particularly frustrating), unanswered pleas for help often accompanied by insane and intimidating code posts (Dreamweaver’s drop-down menus come with a nasty-looking javascript file), or criticisms of Dreamweaver’s drop-down menus (and rightly so), with suggestions to go find a free one or follow some tutorials. I also fell upon Andy Finnell’s criticism (http://www.losingfight.com/blog/2006/08/11/the-sordid-tale-of-mm_menufw_menujs/) of the menus, and you know it’s pretty bad when even the guy who had a part in developing part of the menus tells you not to use them. [...] […] I began using Dreamweaver (first 8, and then CS3) to help me create a series of dropdown menus, with an applet directly underneath the navigation bar. Almost immediately, I ran into the problem of my dropdown menus appearing behind the applet instead of in front. I scoured the web for many days, searching for a solution, and mostly what I found were suggestions to rearrange the page so that the menus simply wouldn’t drop down in front of something (an answer I found to be particularly frustrating), unanswered pleas for help often accompanied by insane and intimidating code posts (Dreamweaver’s drop-down menus come with a nasty-looking javascript file), or criticisms of Dreamweaver’s drop-down menus (and rightly so), with suggestions to go find a free one or follow some tutorials. I also fell upon Andy Finnell’s criticism (http://www.losingfight.com/blog/2006/08/11/the-sordid-tale-of-mm_menufw_menujs/) of the menus, and you know it’s pretty bad when even the guy who had a part in developing part of the menus tells you not to use them. […]

]]> By: Cookie Pierce http://www.losingfight.com/blog/2006/08/11/the-sordid-tale-of-mm_menufw_menujs/#comment-14333 Cookie Pierce Fri, 27 Apr 2007 15:17:09 +0000 http://www.losingfight.com/blog/2006/08/11/the-sordid-tale-of-mm_menufw_menujs/#comment-14333 I got sent to this URL by a potential client who looked at the source code for a couple of the sites I've developed! I must say I've been having trouble with the FW menus too -- the implementation in Fireworks is so poor that the "Appearance" tabs don't even function, so I had to create the menus and then try to figure out how to modify the appearance by changing the Javascript. Which of course made me wonder why I hadn't just written the Javascript myself. (Answer: I thought Macromedia had taken care of it for me!) I will definitely try Al's product on the next website I have to develop. Thanks everyone for the story and the great comments. I got sent to this URL by a potential client who looked at the source code for a couple of the sites I’ve developed! I must say I’ve been having trouble with the FW menus too — the implementation in Fireworks is so poor that the “Appearance” tabs don’t even function, so I had to create the menus and then try to figure out how to modify the appearance by changing the Javascript. Which of course made me wonder why I hadn’t just written the Javascript myself. (Answer: I thought Macromedia had taken care of it for me!) I will definitely try Al’s product on the next website I have to develop. Thanks everyone for the story and the great comments.

]]> By: Lanny Chambers http://www.losingfight.com/blog/2006/08/11/the-sordid-tale-of-mm_menufw_menujs/#comment-11503 Lanny Chambers Wed, 04 Apr 2007 00:02:52 +0000 http://www.losingfight.com/blog/2006/08/11/the-sordid-tale-of-mm_menufw_menujs/#comment-11503 As a FW user since monkeyboy, I really enjoyed this tale--thanks, Andy. Thanks to Murray, too, for introducing me to Al's elegant P7 solutions, thus saving my sanity. As a FW user since monkeyboy, I really enjoyed this tale–thanks, Andy. Thanks to Murray, too, for introducing me to Al’s elegant P7 solutions, thus saving my sanity.

]]> By: php_guy http://www.losingfight.com/blog/2006/08/11/the-sordid-tale-of-mm_menufw_menujs/#comment-10271 php_guy Fri, 23 Mar 2007 20:31:46 +0000 http://www.losingfight.com/blog/2006/08/11/the-sordid-tale-of-mm_menufw_menujs/#comment-10271 Ya know ... I'm guessin I'm relatively lonely on this, but I don't find the menus all that bad. In fact, I just use the mm_menu.js file, mod it as needed for transparency and dynamic generation with PHP/MySQL, and away I go. No biggie, right? I must say, I did need a laugh today and this post delivered. Ya know … I’m guessin I’m relatively lonely on this, but I don’t find the menus all that bad.

In fact, I just use the mm_menu.js file, mod it as needed for transparency and dynamic generation with PHP/MySQL, and away I go. No biggie, right?

I must say, I did need a laugh today and this post delivered.

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