posted 12 years ago
Does anybody know a good menu creator that uses Suckerfish as basis?
Suckerfish is a "standardized" web menu. Its markup is made only of ul's, li's and a's, and its layout is made exclusively with CSS. The cool thing about it is that we can have unlimited nested submenus, by adding an ul inside an li, without having to rely on JavaScript.
Although there's no official standard, if we use the ul-li-a structure, we can add some css styles to structure this list as a menu - and its submenus -, and another styles set to customize it with colors and "shiny" stuff. And also there's superfish, supersubs and hoverIntent, 3 jQuery plugins that enhance any Suckerfish menu without having to change its markup and style.
In the past, before Suckerfish, it was very hard to get a good menu for Web that supported submenus. Most used wacky JavaScript or were made with Flash. Some created jpeg pics for menu itens, which are pretty but make the menu static, while Suckerfish allows easy dynamic customization just by creating the markup from PHP/JSP. Even today there are some menu creators that use div's and wacky markups, that create very pretty menus, but keep us locked on their proprietary software.
I know Suckerfish is old stuff, but was standardized by its use. I just wanted software that would create neat CSS based on the standard, to make it easier to create many different menus. Have anybody ever seen a pro-quality creator?
