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[Peter Sawczynec]

You know, I'm not even on the frontend list. I missed that.

CSS/PHP MENU

This URL: http://www.giba.us

...is a simple but elegant PHP website I designed and built that has an
example of a very simple CSS one-level menu that also uses PHP to grab
the page name out of the URL request and changes the CSS class on that
matching menu item from "regular" to "hot". The web pages are named
literally: webcams.php or tolls.php to match the CSS menu titles and CSS
style names too.


JQUERY

This URL: http://www.capehazeinsider.com

...is also a bigger busier PHP website that I designed and built and
this site uses jquery on literally every page for: image effects,
show/hide/glide divs, manage external links, create popup overlays, page
scrolling, tabbed content...

I highly recommend the jquery code products which are just awesome and
have super high degree of "cross browser" compatibility. 

I even hauled out the jquery big guns to create one single show/hide div
effect in the Tolls section of the above noted GIBA website. 

I have two websites in development now that will use jquery for quite
nice image effects and content scrolling. 

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I don’t believe that I am using any browser specific code just generic
things like: border-left, padding-bottom, margin, width and z-index. But
you know I do use some more rare CSS like: line-height, letter-spacing
and white-space; and well they work quite accurately in so many browsers
that I use them all the time. 

There are so many high quality CSS multi-level menus already online that
are made from nothing but nested ordered lists and styled with some
tasty but very generic CSS. You can start at www.alistapart.com


Warmest regards, 
 
Peter Sawczynec 
Technology Dir.
blūstudio 
941.893.0396
ps at blu-studio.com 
www.blu-studio.com 


-----Original Message-----
From: talk-bounces at lists.nyphp.org [mailto:talk-bounces at lists.nyphp.org]
On Behalf Of Hans C. Kaspersetz
Sent: Thursday, June 04, 2009 8:05 AM
To: 'NYPHP Talk'; front-end at lists.nyphp.org
Subject: Re: [nycphp-talk] Periodic Browsercam.com group availability

-----Original Message-----
From: talk-bounces at lists.nyphp.org [mailto:talk-bounces at lists.nyphp.org]
On Behalf Of Peter Sawczynec
Sent: Wednesday, June 03, 2009 10:39 PM
To: 'NYPHP Talk'
Subject: Re: [nycphp-talk] Periodic Browsercam.com group availability

Now, me I don't guarantee anything (especially not in writing), but I do
use
words such as code is "targeted for assured compatibility with" blah
blah.

As far as I can tell, speaking with one handy broad paint stroke, as
long as
the JavaScript code in question is always addressing everything in the
DOM
via the general and proper "getElementById()" method including XML=like
child elements (and nothing in any older style), then this JavaScript
code
is current, correct and sufficiently "cross browser, platform
independent"
to work in all relevant and widely-distributed browsers. If this type of
modern democratic ECMAScript breaks in any old browser, then it is very
likely that that browser is TOO old and is likely a security hazard to
code
down to in this day and age. And so I wouldn't bother to do that and I
would
tell the client so. And that gets the "old browser compatibility"
albatross
off the table too. Yeah, nice.

And so once again, I find that Opera, IE, Safari and FF can all play
ball
just by coding to clean modern standards.

I don't use layouts that stretch to 100% page width. That is a CSS
control
nightmare. I make one master relatively positioned outer div container
of a
fixed width of 900 - 1100 px and then every other div is an absolutely
positioned child div inside the master div.  


--- New Message --

First, we might want to take this over to the front-end list.  I am
cross
posting this to that list so the discussion can continue on the relevant
list.  I can imagine there are some people rolling their eyes right now.


Second, how are you handling your CSS menus with no browser specific
coding?
I would love to see some examples.  I know I haven't found a way without
some browser specific coding and CSS.

Hans K

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