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Drop Down Menus

  • 07-12-2001 7:13pm
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,049 ✭✭✭


    Hi all -

    I hope the pages have sped up some, basically the drop down menus were created from a query before this and as well as the date check to see if you had new posts in each forum it was probably too much. I now just have it including some text for the drop down menus, advantage - faster, disadvantage - new forums won't appear until we edit the text manually.

    As well as being quicker, I've taken out redundant font tags and used CSS instead, the size has dropped from 30k (I believe according to previous reports) to 15k.

    It'll do for now anyway.

    John.
    --


Comments

  • Closed Accounts Posts: 17,163 ✭✭✭✭Boston


    its a great feature, i was lost without it


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,446 ✭✭✭✭amp


    Yeah, I kept moving the mouse up to the top only for no menu's to appear. It was a traumatic experience.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,660 ✭✭✭Baz_


    amp test

    Same here, I had to use the front page for navigation, oooh!!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,046 ✭✭✭Dustaz


    god i was lost without them :(

    so are the little new post asterisks gone forever then? ill miss that.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 654 ✭✭✭DS


    Yeah the new posts bit was the best part :(


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  • Moderators, Music Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 9,389 Mod ✭✭✭✭Lenny


    The speed of the pages loading has speed up dramaticulity for me, well done Cloud. ;)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,695 ✭✭✭b20uvkft6m5xwg


    Minor point....

    AFAIR The title used to be "college life" & not "college" on the drop down. I think it just sounds a bit better the original way!

    heck
    but if its goin to cause a headache just ignore this:)

    EDIT

    Actually I see its changed everywhere to "College" !?
    Any particular reason- I thought college life sounded better....:)

    /EDIT


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,695 ✭✭✭b20uvkft6m5xwg


    BTW

    Just in case your looking for any updates on browser compatibility...

    The New Drop downs are working fine on Opera 5.12-:)
    except they are aligning to the left? for some reason
    But
    Still dont show on Netscape 4.6 & 4.7:(


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,309 ✭✭✭✭Bard


    15Kb still fairly big for just one iddy biddy bit of a page... I'm sure ye can do better :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,207 ✭✭✭MindPhuck


    Its certainly faster John. Pain in the arse about the .txt file. I lubs data driven queries personally.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,309 ✭✭✭✭Bard


    Certain things on the page - the menus included - add a bit of 'weight' to the page. How about the option in our control panel to turn them off?

    Personally I know I'd turn off the drop down menus myself just for the sake of a bit of extra speed.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,660 ✭✭✭Baz_


    now that is a good idea, probably a lot of work but when people moan about the slowness, at least you can then tell them to turn of an option or two, basically blaming them hahahaha


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 78,574 ✭✭✭✭Victor


    Works excellently with IE 5.0, much faster, thank you. And I do us ethe drop down menus a lot of the time.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 944 ✭✭✭nahdoic


    I don't understand why you don't just dump all that style sheet data into a file and use this
    <link rel=stylesheet href="http://www.whatever ... /style.css" type="text/css>

    and dump all that huge long javascript code into a file as well and link to it using

    <SCRIPT TYPE="text/javascript" LANGUAGE="javascript" src="http://www. ... whatever.js"></SCRIPT>

    Wouldn't that just be so much faster for loading? And make the pages so much more tiny and manageable.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,309 ✭✭✭✭Bard


    nahdoic has the right idea. If you used linked CSS and JS files it would speed things up because the browser (AND the server) would cache these frequently used files for faster access.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,049 ✭✭✭Cloud


    Yep the JavaScript should certainly go in a separate file, the CSS stuff is generated by vB (apart from 3 lines I added which aren't worth putting into a separate file).

    J.
    --


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,468 ✭✭✭Evil Phil


    They're working in Opera 6 but they're not working in Netscape 6.2


  • Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 4,600 CMod ✭✭✭✭RopeDrink


    As handy as the menu's are, funnily enough, I never actually use them (And I don't think I ever have)... Still, they're nice to have, and seem to be running so much smoother (as does the entire board || for me anyway)...

    Great stuff...


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 825 ✭✭✭MarcusGarvey


    Not working in Mozilla for me :(


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