[jsmenu-codedev] ToDo-list for v2.3.3

[Morten W. <war...@on...>]

I've been having a look at the list of open bugs & feature requests
and have found a few I'd like to look at for v2.3.3.  The problems
with IE5/Mac is given first priority, after that comes the following
things, not in order of priority:

1: style-element's id-attribute doesn't validate.
   this isn't a very difficult thing to fix, grab the HTML 4.01
   Transitional DTD, add the id-attribute, write some instructions,
   publish on the web, include it in the documentation
2: Pre/postload all images.
   (this of course includes any items in the icon list)
3: tracked item lost on sub action.
4: test the iframe-support patch.

#3 is a slightly larger issue.  I'm thinking along the lines of
rewriting the tracking functionality somewhat, since it's not optimal
at the moment.  my ideas are:

1: all items should have an itemClick() method defined, and they
   should use an onclick-event to call that method, setting the
   tracked item, refreshing the menu
   (the first call to MTMDisplayMenu() after this is ignored, so the
    menu isn't refreshed twice)
2: the code behind itemClick() will store the previously tracked item
   so that it can use DOM-methods directly to set/unset the class
   properties, thereby removing the need for a redisplay of the menu.
3: itemClick() for submenus will not redisplay the menu either, just
   add the necessary items to the document if needed, and set their
   style-properties to "display:none;" when they're removed.

this change means that the tracking code will only be used when the
user hits his/her back-button or follows a link in document.  instead
of working on a first-hit basis it should store any items found in an
array, enabling hits on more than one item.  secondly it won't need to
open & close submenus while it's doing this since that can be done by
walking _up_ the tree once a hit is found using the .parentNode
property of the item.  this will of course also mean changes to the
code for auto-closing of submenus is needed.


Morten!

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