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Re: MouseOver Menus

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From: Susan Bignell
Date: Jul 17, 2002 1:20PM

I'm not sure what sort of code our programmer was using - meaning
whether that's how he was positioning the d-menus anyhow. On page
load all the text would flash in at a quite large size before
assuming the correct sizes. I think perhaps a delay in getting
through the style sheet, though we've optimised it as far as
possible for speedy rendering. However, without the dynamic menus
this problem is no longer an issue. And the original code works
fine on other sites that don't use relative sizing in the menu
text.

Thanks!
Susan
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From: < <EMAIL REMOVED> >; "Steven Splinter"
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To: < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
Sent: Wednesday, July 17, 2002 3:47 PM
Subject: Re: MouseOver Menus


> It's possible to write a javascript to fix that, but it's big,
bulky,
> and will reload the page every time you resize the page. It
works by
> finding the XY coordinates of the element (say, a link) you
want the
> mouseover to appear next to, and using that as the XY
coordinates for
> the layer. And if JS's turned off, well, you wouldn't get the
mouseovers
> anyways.
>
> Susan Bignell wrote:
>
> >> I've been working on an accessible site where we wanted this
> >> functionality. However, the programmer was unable to make it
work
> >> entirely satisfactorily while keeping the sizing of the left
> >> navigational text relative. Ran into some annoying
page-loading
> >> behaviour. It works fine with fixed size, but that's not
what we want.
> >> We've therefore abandoned the idea. Susan Bignell
> >
> --
> Steven Splinter
> Web Developer, CITS Internet Development
> University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
> (508) 910-6483
> AIM- sevenjades
>
>
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