waffles — Thu, 03 Aug 2006 00:08:05 +0000

[singing] I hate flash. I don't want to see it. I don't want to be forced to have something on my computer to see your menu

[no tune in mind]

Megan — Wed, 02 Aug 2006 18:47:13 +0000

Now here's a good excuse for a flash menu:

http://www.bigcityrock.net/

waffles — Wed, 02 Aug 2006 13:35:18 +0000

Roughyl 10% of people have javascript turned off though, so make sure you leave something for them to use.

cheers

sussexrob — Wed, 02 Aug 2006 12:52:31 +0000

Cheers all

Cleared it up in my mind. DIdnt realise IE had it already, you learn something new everyday eh.

Javascript it is then. THe only reason I mentioned flash was someone I Saw had flash for his menus.

Ta for your inputs

Rob

Megan — Wed, 02 Aug 2006 12:49:48 +0000

I'm not sure what kind of menu you're thinking about but there is really no reason why you'd have to have flash for a left navigation menu. Only if you wanted to do some fancy animation with it or something, and even then you'd want to provide a text alternative. Those fly-out menus you see sometimes can be done with CSS.

If given the choice javascript would probably be preferable to flash. Some people don't install flash on purpose, or keep it turned off until they really need it for something.

Shirthead — Wed, 02 Aug 2006 12:19:02 +0000

If you do a menu in flash users need flash player to see it, yes. IE comes with flashplayer by default, but it could cause problems for other browsers.

Javascript is usually deemed "safer" as long as it is coded well. Safer still is HTML/CSS, depending on what you are trying to achieve.