Re: Menus and Browsers

Question No.1 : When do you want your menu text to change?

Let's assume you want to do it when a link is clicked on the menu bar
  No way to do it except use JS to load a file in current frame
  with changed text and the actual content file in the other frame.

As for backward compatibility - the criteria that should guide you in
this should be your prospective visitors not the content. You cannot
say "Sci-Fi fans mostly use this type of broswers" because ... well,
you just can't!

The second thing is - don't add something that is not needed. Ask
yourself the question: "What is the alternative for adding this? Can I
do away with it and maintain the site quality?" You will know what to
do when you answer this -- and this is a question that ONLY you can
answer as the designer of the site. This goes mostly for the "new"
technologies which do not enjoy a wide base - like Java (most of the
people I bump into have it turned off anyway. I'm speaking locally).
No point in asking this question for using an image of a robot, is
there !? ;-)

Enjoy and let me know the URL once the site is done.

[abhay]

----- Original Message -----
From: <David.Artiss(at)boots.co.uk>
Subject: Menus and Browsers


> 1. I have a text menu within a frame. The frame also contains a
>    background image and various graphics. Is there an easy way
>    to change the menu text WITHOUT using script and without
>    having to reload the entire frame ?
>
> 2. The site I'm building is a "modern" non-commercial sci-fi
>    magazine. Based on this, how much effort do you think I
>    should invest in making it backward compatible (non-Java,
>    non-frames, etc) ? You'd think the readers of a sci-fi
>    magazine might have the latest browsers !?!! Or is the
>    issue that they might be trying to read it on some
>    palm-sized Internet device which doesn't support Java
>    (which would be appropriate for the readership). I just
>    don't want to spend effort on something which is only
>    going to affect 0.1% of people

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