Topic: The name of this type of menubar?

I'm going to be building a CSS menu bar into a site much like the one at http://www.mightyleaftea.com

I've heard of dropdown menus, but what is the type of menu at mightleaftea.com called?



- AIM: MASKKKK

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*shrug* Looks like a dropdown to me. Just expanded horizontally and vertically instead of just vertically.

-S

same here

Are looking for a buzzword or catchphrase? How about "horizontally enhanced drop down menu"?


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Hmm okay thanks Suho, I guess that'll work...



- AIM: MASKKKK

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I call it the Obama Site Dropdown:

http://www.barackobama.com/index.php
http://www.whitehouse.gov/

source has it all

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CPrompt said:

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Holy ralph.

yuk

I didn't say it was pretty

Later,

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They made the menu an odd way too...

ul#topnav li 
{
    float:left; 
    list-style-type:none; 
    background-image:url(/images/eop/nav-sprite.gif);
}

(http://www.whitehouse.gov/images/eop/nav-sprite.gif)

When you move your mouse over the menus, it shifts the background...to move the menu into place.

Why would anybody do it that way in this day and age? Seems like that would be alot of trouble. I haven't seen anything like this since they used to do stuff like this in DirectX.



- AIM: MASKKKK

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There's gotta be a better way to do this...*grumble*....



- AIM: MASKKKK

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Nei. CSS sprites are the way to go. They require a single HTTP request ( you don't want to burn stupidly the number of HTTP connections and have the browser stale until one of the connection in its pool is closed ), and since the images share the same colors and a lot of other similarities anyway, grouping them makes perfect sense and tends to help the compression.

Hmm that's interesting poi, I never thought of that. Thanks for the tip, maybe I'll use that in my next project!



- AIM: MASKKKK

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Wait a second, if this is a faster/more efficient way to load the image up, then why does everybody split large images on pages into smaller image slices?

(Not that I don't believe your right Poi, I just
wonder why...)

in short : Because some people and tools don't know better ( or haven't thought that there might be a better way to that )

For instance Dreamweaver and its built-in image roll over script enforced people in using multiple images for navigations. I'm pretty sure other tools, including CMS, did the same for years.

It does also take some mathological skills to do it. Some people aren't fond even of arithmetic.