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Konqueror's Javascript Continues To Improve

Posted by Hemos on from the getting-better-and-better dept.

ElitusPrime writes "Konq's Javascript support may have been regarded as weak in the past, but 3.0 is a huge improvement. As an example, DHTML Lab has just released a Konqurer supported version of their popular HierMenus product. These cross-browser, backwards compatible pop-up menus are very complex, using all sorts of Javascript and DHTML tricks. Konq now supports them out of the box!"

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  1. Are these guys stoned? by brunes69 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I went to that site in the latest Konq CVS, and the menus worked great. But then I went on to read about this company.. 29.95 for the use of some simple DHTML menus on only 5 pages?!@?!? Higher license fees for mroe pages??!?! I could code my own implimentation of this in 5-10 mins! These guys are seriously whacko.

    1. Re:Are these guys stoned? by Jerf · · Score: 5, Insightful

      I could code my own implimentation of this in 5-10 mins!

      Then please do so. Post a link.

      The Hiermenus are not "simple DHTML menus". They are extremely capable menus that work with an unprecedented set of browsers and capabilities, with good ease of use. They have been through multiple versions over the last few months, and are probably the best argument for the difficult of useful DHTML currently in existance. (This is how hard it is to create cross-platform menus, fer pete's sake... can you imagine creating a grid control?)

      As simple as they may seem, they required an unbelievable amount of time to create because of the immense number of browser incompatibilities that exist on the their target platforms. Example: I once implemented my own menus, back when there was Netscape 4.2 or so, and IE 4 was reasonably new.

      Several months after we'd rolled these things out, I got a call from upstairs, saying the menu looked wierd on their machine. "What version of Netscape are you using?" "4.5". (Numbers in the post are made up, because I don't remember the exact version, but the point holds.) "That's wierd, it looks fine on my machine."

      Come to find out that in Netscape 4.5, but not Netscape 4.43 or Netscape 4.52, the code that decided how large a 100% height DIV was changed slightly, was causing (incorrect) shrinkage on their system, and was causing a background image to show up way too many times, making it ugly. Eventually I just let the bug stand, and to this day, if you hit the site with the wrong version of Netscape 4, the menus are ugly.

      These things multiply the more browsers you add into the list of supported browsers, and that list is long for hiermenus. While we may wish they were free for hobby sites, purchasing a license in a more formal environment (not necessarily even corporate) is giving you hundreds of hours of dev time at a very cheap price. It's literally cheap at twice the price.

      They are not wacko. The wackos are those who in a corporate environment look at them, make the same call you did ("I could code that in an hour!"), and proceed to blow thousands of dollars worth of time to save themselves 30 bucks. (Money, people, money. Learn about it. There are few things as valuable as a technically-savvy person who understands business!)