Re: [Web-erp-developers] Interface

[Phil D. <p.d...@pa...>]

On Mon, 2004-08-02 at 00:34, skaill wrote:
> Have you looked in the past day or two, Phil?  Some of your comments
> may be before I did a bunch of work.  Hopefully you have some time to
> look again.  No question marks anymore and they were only temporary
> before I was going to create a help graphic.  Anyway, I think the way
> you did with the one Help at the top is good as long as we document
> clearly, possibly in the first online help screen, that the help will
> change contextually.  Possibly by the menu items you mean the
> menu_group_items or do you mean the main_menu?

Looked again - yes it looks really good now! Keen to incorporate this. I
notice you havent got the Help link yet. Interested to find out the
difficulty you had with the help. I think the main difficulty will be in
populating the help table with useful data. It would be nice if the text
in the Help table was html - I put some stuff in for the main menu just
to test it.

>  
> The menus would be javascript.  However, I believe when I did testing
> in several browsers on this site I created www.goldenwitch.com they
> worked on all.  Some people with various browsers could try going to
> that site to see if the drop-down menus work perfectly.  It is minimal
> and very standard javascript.  I agree with avoiding javascript, java
> and any other language as much as possible but you can't make
> drop-down menus unless you have code at the client side.  I think ALL
> languages besides PHP, HTML and CSS should be optional in the config
> or elsewhere.
>  

Firefox works fine with the drop down menus on that site but Konqueror
cant actually get to the menu - eg the "Fine Tackle" brings down the
choices for Rods, Reels etc but I cant get to the links without moving
over "Rod Making" - so the options come up with Tools etc and I cant
activate any of the links for Fine Tackle.

I think it would be good to have some interactivity like this on the
main menu in particular but we need a back stop option that always
works.

Phil