Re: Jquery menus for DW CC
Based on past history, I'm afraid you are expecting too much: -) Pure CSS menus, by the way, will not work well on a touch device. They will be rudimentary at best and unusable at worst. -- Al Sparber...
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I have absolutely no idea what are talking about Madweblc. do you? Anyone who understands JavaScript knows Spry was a failure. Adobe needs a free menu tool for the folks (many of whom post here) do not...
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"Pure CSS menus, by the way, will not work well on a touch device."Why wouldn't they?There is a lot of different kind of pure CSS menus that do:http://www.cssplay.co.uk/menus/
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Hi Ajatix, Simple menus will work fine. A multi-level menu will not. For a simple menu, only the greenest of beginners would need a widget. The trick is making multi-level menus respond to touch in a...
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Simple menus will work fine. A multi-level menu will not. For a simple menu, only the greenest of beginners would need a widget. The trick is making multi-level menus respond to touch in a usable...
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Al, Your menu falls back to pure CSS. Our commercial menus are based on pure CSS and use JavaScript for progressive enhancement (animations, delays, 'you are here' markers, etc.). Don't you think we...
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Our menus are built with CSS first and then we use JavaScript to enhance them - which includes getting it to work usably in a multi-level format on touch devices. As for jQuery, we never use it. We...
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Al, Play coy if you must . It just seems that threads like this has at least one person who implies Adobe shouldn't have to cater to 'beginers'. As if your business needs are the only ones that...
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I am neither playing nor being coy. Dreamweaver has to cater to beginners because it is their largest remaining market - and it's a market that has changed over the years. An experience web developer...
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Hi all, Thank you for a very interesting discussion. About the query on why we did not introduce jQuery menu widgets in CC (version 13.0), it was because the jQuery menu module (specification) wasn't...
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I am neither playing nor being coy either. I work on several websites at one time and like functions that streamline my work. Dreamweaver is NOT FREE, it is quite expensive, and with free sources like...
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You usually get what you pay for Like I said, Adobe (and Macromedia before it) has a very quantifiable history of being a great CSS/Code/Content editor, while being absolutely horrible at client-side...
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I have been using DW as well as teaching it at a college for years. I started with this program when it was Macromedia... I'm shocked by some of the discussion here. I have been teaching web 1 (intro...
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So I'm having the same questions here regarding why DW CC 2014 doesn't have menu included in the supported jQuery UI widgets. I saw you response to this was on Jul 24, 2013, that you definitely have a...
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I just downloaded the latest release 2014.1 and not my Ajatix Advanced CSS Menu extension no longer works!!!! I get the following error message:-TypeError: AJXCSSMenu.Start is not a function PS: I am...
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FWIW I just popped in to find out what's new with the included menu-building functionality.... ouch.
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Why not go directly to the source?http://api.jqueryui.com/menu/ Nancy O.
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Hi Nancy... "Why not go directly to the source?" Basically, for the same reason I use Illustrator instead of learning a programming language to create graphics...
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Web development is all about code. And Since jQuery and jQuery UI are constantly being updated, it's in your best interests to get them directly from the source. DW can't possibly keep up with the...
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turner111 wrote:"Why not go directly to the source?" Basically, for the same reason I use Illustrator instead of learning a programming language to create graphics...In that case you would be better...
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Look, I am not shilling for anybody. For every other 3rd party app or extension I use, I get updates directly from the source, not Adobe. Why should it be any different with jQuery? Just saying......
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Because this is much like the design view thread. When we pay a premium for DW and when popular features are removed it will draw criticism from us. When it comes to J query they added plenty of...
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The netbeans comparison is a good one. But in the Adobe world, the idea of moving to Muse because we want features that DW doesn't work. Because we want features like Jquery menu doesn't mean we want...
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I do not believe that Nancy has ever argued that there should not be a design view - only that the current design view must be replaced by a modernized one that works with modern standards. It was the...
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Pick there battles.. I agree, the battles they have been picking lately have been poor ones. Nancy has been quite dismissive of design view advocating to get rid of it outright, the only time she...
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Hi madwebllc, Everyone on this forum is entitled to their opinion. Because MVPs on the forum have been around longer than others and have considerable years of expertise, their confidence derived from...
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I feel that the DW dev team is somewhat strained, and they have to pick their battles. Things move very fast in web development. Amen. DW's relatively small development team must prioritize tasks and...
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Aside from the technical issues, the real question from a UX design point of view, should always be: can I avoid a drop down menu system in the first place? Traditional drop down menus that immediately...
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MVP.. or not.. I misconstrued nothing. I am not blind to the fact that Nancy or others of her stripe bring in depth experience to the table. Its just some like Nancy are tone deaf to the methods...
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The reason why we do not commit anything on a public platform is because information about an update isn't final until testing is complete and the update is ready for public release. As messengers,...
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madwebllc wrote: Someone here suggested using Muse. Quite frankly I find MS Frontpage a more effective solution then Muse. Woah, wait a minute there, that was me merely responding (cheekily, granted)...
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Sure, but some kind of vague roadmap would be great for your users. That's what other software companies do that are more in line with current social network thinking. And their users respond in a very...
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Your post above had this reply in part. "In that case you would be better off using Muse, instead of Dreamweaver. DW is a coding environment, with some visual assistance to speed up development. Muse...
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Hi! On the first lines of this post, I reab about the the Advanced CSS Menu Light extension. I tried to install it but it dont works!… No need to leave this extension installed. Can u tell me how can i...
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I am confused. Which is better for dropdown menus, jQuery or CSS? The argument about that earlier on this thread didn't seem to be resolved. I generally just want one level of dropdowns, but they need...
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Which is better for dropdown menus, jQuery or CSS? The argument about that earlier on this thread didn't seem to be resolved. I generally just want one level of dropdowns, but they need to work on...
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The vast majority of systems billed as "jQuery menus" are just "CSS menus" that get some extra effects from the jQuery library. If you find one you like by doing a search in Google, test how it reacts...
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My Advanced CSS Menu Light for Dreamweaver has developed an odd behavior: the drop down menus lose the text in live mode. Odd.
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Rather than latching onto a very old topic., please post a new topic.
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Hi nailat, See How to use jQuery UI and mobile widgets in Dreamweaver for using jquery widgets in Dreamweaver. I am locking this discussion because it is an old thread, and has gotten too long. I...
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