help with popup menus and the browser Security Zone settings?

[jreitz]

Ok, so Ive got my site up finally, and yes its got some issues of size and bulk, and messy code, but is a whopper of a site and its a first time for me using some of the javascript i did, so here is my problem:

All works great as along as the browser security setting is on medium or lower, but on high, none of the drop down menus or pop ups in the "SPDMAP" area work.

I can live with this i guess, but I would prefer it to work for all users..

This is all with I.E.


The site is www.parkfun.com (http://www.parkfun.com)

any help is appreciated. Also, any other errors that pop up, please let me know too! Thanks. This group is always so helpful!

John

[beetle]

Doubt it. Since part of the High setting is to disable scripting, this would be like trying to check your email w/o an internet connection.

[Roy Sinclair]

This is why designing for accessability can be a benefit for you, had you designed with accessability in mind then you'd have added ways to allow full access to your site from the beginning and users with javascript disabled (security=high) would also still be able to get full access. Remember that the content of your site is much more important than the presentation (unless presentation IS your content) and providing a simple alternative access to the content can not only be helpful but will widen your available audience.

Consider using the <noscript></noscript> tags to provide alternative links in place of the fancy menus.

Checking your page it doesn't look all that bad even with javascript disabled. It did load very, very slowly on my high speed connection but that may have been due to other traffic (I share it with 5000 other users).

[brothercake]

You could use <ul> tree menus, like Eric Meyer's pure CSS menus (http://www.meyerweb.com/eric/css/edge/menus/demo.html) or my own hybridised version (http://www.brothercake.com/scripts/navmeister/page.php) (I added DHTML behaviors so it works in IE with JS enabled)

Even in browsers which don't support the menus, or those which have scripting and/or CSS disabled, the <ul> tree of links is still there :)