On Sep 28, 8:27 am, "george.gsgd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Surely this should be done with CSS. Javascript is great, but making > your navigation rely on it is not. Also, it would be better semantics > to mark up your menu as a list.
I posted this in response to a similar concern posted to the blog: I realize this is a common argument, and I fully agree it's a viable direction. However I see absolutely nothing wrong with using images in navigation, especially in top-level section nav. That said, define "simple" as it relates to accomplishing this in css. As a good example, just today, one of our contractors gave me a css file where navigation was done with css. It was accomplished my switching backgrounds on 'a' tags on hover, etc. Just the code to do this navigation was 66 lines of css. This was for just five buttons. Plus, my method alleviates all the extra css mojo that might be necessary to make sure everything works in all browsers, etc. My solution can be compressed into very few lines of code in comparison. And in the event someone has javascript disabled, it doesn't exactly break the whole thing. The rollovers just won't work. Small price to pay for the relatively tiny proportion of all visitors. So yeah, point totally well taken, but I think this is still a good solution and might still help out some users just getting started with learning jQuery.
