Posted by Michael Laplante on 07/02/23 11:47

The site I'm re-designing has 52 menu items. Right now these are organized
over three levels. The issue is that every menuing option I've looked at
uses Javascript and IE 6 doesn't like that. A warning comes up about
blocking "active content." A menu gives the option to allow blocked content
but immediately below that is an item marked "What's the risk?"

My concern is that people may have javascript turned off, or "Internet Lite"
users may be nervous about allowing the blocked content -- in which case
they'll never see the menu.

I've thought of:
i. iframes but I don't think these are supported beyond the last generation
of browsers;
ii. a site map but that introduces one extra step everytime someone wants to
go to a different location;
iii. some sort of warning on the front page to the effect that "this site
uses a javascript for menu purposes, so make sure you have it turned on."

I can't be the first person to encounter this. What have people here done to
work around it.

BTW, thanks to Toby Inkster for the Suckerfish resourse -- however, it needs
javascript to run on IE6.

M

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