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[mke]

Right ... i'm sorry to announce you that, but CoolJS PRO is a very very slow menu.

I made a 150 items menu (30 main menu) and i wait a few seconds to load it from my own hard disk. My system is an Athon @ 1,8 GHz with 256Mb. What should i say about the users with computers <500 MHz!!! They should wait something like .... 10-15 secs???????

If anybody knows a faster menu (but with a relative position) please message me. Till now i used another one with fixed position. It was loading same menus 5-6 times faster.

Thanks in advance.....

[GTHOG]

Just curious, were you using IE or Netscape (or ???)? I'm finding that Netscape is a lot slower than IE for almost any JavaScript functions (not just COOLjsMenu).

[eduardo]

yes, I have to drop using it because of this, too slow

[undisclosed]

java isnt flash, it will be slower..

if you want flash, then program a flash menu.. but dont complain about something you are getting basically for nothing, and with great support

- Undis

[undisclosed]

mke..

you were using a faster menu that had a fixed position?

why not use an <iframe> you will limit yourself to people with browsers made in this decade.. but you can position it anywhere you want.

create a file called menu.html and place your menu in the top left corner

then on the page you want it displayed, where you want it.. place an <iframe> in a table cell

[WTG]

We're having the same issue.

When I was running the menu with just 7 top levels and 5-6 items under each, it ran fine.

Now I'm running 7/5-6/6-8 items in a three level menu, and we do our performance testing on a 500mhz w/ 384MB RAM.

It's now very slow and utilizes 60-90% of the processor when you run the curser over the menu.

WTG

[wilmshurst]

I've been evaluating the standard version and am very impressed. It does seem to slow the site's initial download a little but not to an unacceptable degree.

Menu centering is required, hence the Pro version is of interest. Earlier comments refer to Pro as being slow, but not sure whether it was found to be slower than Standard. In which case, I would be inclined to explore the iframe suggestion, made by 'undisclosed' on October 10th.

I'm a relative newcomer to web design and pretty clueless about Javascript.

I will be licencing one of the two versions for commercial use. Before doing so, would welcome any comments or advice.

[wilmshurst]

Undisclosed's iframe centers the menu beautifully, but there is a problem. The drop-down does not extend out beyond the iframe. So the iframe has to have enough height to allow all submenus to extend, otherwise they don't show. In my case this means an iframe of height 250 pixels. This leaves me with an empty box 750 x 175, which messes up the rest of the page. One answer would be to insert some of the content inside the iframe. That wouldn't be possible without altering the overall appearance, something I would prefer not to do.

Is there a way round, other than going for Pro (which I will be happy to do if reassured about speed)?

[undisclosed]

you are using a drop down? not drop over? correct

the iframe works beautifully, if you drop the menu items over, not down. unfortunately, if you want to drop down, you will need the pro version.


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