Macs rock Mambo

[pixelsoul]

How about this one.. http://javascript.cooldev.com/scripts/coolmenu/

Seems to work on Opera, IE, Firefox, Netscape i just can't test it under safari
Aah nevermind it's only for non profit use not a good solution

[Riba]

TigraMenu can be used for commercial purposes, and works everywhere I tried it:
http://www.softcomplex.com/products/tigra_menu/
There is a ton of better menu solutions than jscook out there, but this is all futile unless core dev team picks one up and implatnts it in Mambo admin

[mibi]

Riba,

Thanks, we'll play with this one and see if it meets our needs.

All other suggestions are welcome.

Maybe we'll find the perfect menu that core will like to implement. They are looking to upgrade the menu system.

[stingrey]

TigraMenu can be used for commercial purposes, and works everywhere I tried it:
http://www.softcomplex.com/products/tigra_menu/

Someone else suggested it to me as well.
I'll go and hava a look at it.

There is a ton of better menu solutions than jscook out there,

Are there any others you can suggest, as I would like to expand my Display Menu range. This will allow people to have a choice as to what Menu system they can implement into their site through my modules.

[old_mac]

Originally Posted by Riba

mibi, I tested the menu on javer using Safari - works pretty well except for one quirk: if the menu item text spans over two lines, it gets truncated on the bottom.
Well, as they say, picture is worth a thousand words:

The menus have been hard wired to Safari in a basic configuration. If you add components, then the component menu will change. This will require that you add Cases to the menu case statement that I used.

Similarly, in your example the top menu is actually 2 menus in depth and therefore is over written, because the case statement in configured for a single depth menu. It should be very easy to change the Y parameter in the jscookmenu to fix it,

hth

Chris

[Riba]

Mibi and stingrey;
Actually a while ago I spent sime time researching the available options...just dug out my notes. TigraMenu is good, but probably not among the best options. I wanted the menu system to be cross-browser compatible, lightweight and fast. Here are some you might want to check, all of them conform to the requirements outlined above:

I particulary liked mygosuMenu - offers several menu styles under BSD license, works perfectly in all browsers I tried it with; check the details here:
http://gosu.pl/software/mygosumenu.html

Another one worth checking is Menu system from Interakt, although I haven't figured out whether it is free or not:
http://www.interakt.ro/products/overview_7.html

Hope it helps make you the right choice!

[mibi]

Thanks Riba for these suggestions!!!

What are the other navigators that Mac users use? And which navigators are the most popular with Mac?

[old_mac]

Originally Posted by mibi

Thanks Riba for these suggestions!!!

What are the other navigators that Mac users use? And which navigators are the most popular with Mac?

Based on my Mac clients I would say browser use would break down like this:

Apple Safari --83%
Internet Explorer --5%
Navigator --5%
All flavours of Mozilla -- 3%
OmniWeb --2%
Opera 8 -1%
iCab -1%

It has been my experience that most Mac users will use 2 or 3 browsers, but since Safari is the fastest browser on any platform, it remains the absolute first choice.

Chris

[mibi]

Thanks Chris,
This is very helpful information. It gives me a clearer picture of the mac world, at least for a browser point of view.

[Riba]

Yes, vast majority os users use Safari, because it is bundled with the system, and actually not a bad browser at all. Unfortunately it has its quirks, but the good thing is that the development is striving to make is standards compliant, and all bugs are fixed in reasonable time. It is based on KHTML engine, so running Konqueror on Linux or KHTML based browser on Windows should allow you to check how the page looks in Safari (although as I understands the Safari team has made vast improvements to KHTML engine which might not be included on other platforms yet).
I think the next choice is one of the Gecko based solutions, and they basically do not differ from the ones running on other platforms.
Explorer will be fading away since it is not being developed any more.
There is also Opera which seems to be picking up pace since 7.5 came out.

I think it is safe to say that Safari is equivalent to IE in Mac world