Re: Jquery menus for DW CC
Adobe is an application developer - they are not set up to develop and manage JavaScript widgets. Every time they've tried, they've failed - with Spry being the most recent failure. The strength of...
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"There is one free Widget available on Adobe Exchange "Advanced CSS Menu Light" using jQuery." Advanced CSS Drop Down Menu Light is a CSS menu. It does not use jQuery, Spry or any other JavaScript...
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Thanks!!! I love it, and am finding it very easy to customize - I have to add drop menus to an old site (http://www.artandsoul108.com/) and with chrome webmaster tools I am loving it. webmaster tools...
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they also charge a lot of money. Sure, I can build anything by hand. DW is a tool to expedite the process ... for the money, I expect more
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Al, I read your response, and I find it funny you call Spry a 'failure' and knock the question on why a jquery widget is missing. And yet you sell widgets. I am a long time user of DW, and I am not a...
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Also, since Adobe has included many of the jQuery UI Widgets, if they also included the Menu widget, DreamWeaver users could utilize the same styles, themes and probably many of the same jQuery...
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I'm afraid that if you want to joint the mobile-device/responsive bandwagon, then you are going to have to use JavaScript unless you want a very simple menu or one with drop-downs that do not work well...
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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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Re: Jquery menus for DW CC
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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Re: Jquery menus for DW CC
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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Re: Jquery menus for DW CC
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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