Superfish 1.4.3 released - now with new documentation

[Joel Birch]

Hi everyone,

I just released Superfish 1.4.3. The documentation is completely
overhauled and now uses Mike Alsup's fantastic templates. Please let
me know if I've left anything incomplete - it's quite a big
nail-biting change.

The CSS has undergone further revision. Rather than each menu type
(horizontal, vertical, navbar) having it's own CSS file, now you
include superfish.css to create the standard menu-type, then add the
extra CSS file relevant to the alternate style, as well as adding an
extra class to the parent ul to suit. Hopefully the docs explain this
well enough.

http://users.tpg.com.au/j_birch/plugins/superfish/

Cheers
Joel Birch.

[Olivier percebois-Garve]

This is really nice Joel.

The css are well structured and I think easy to understand.
Since it is a prerequisite to use superfish, perhaps you may consider adding a link to a pure css menu article (or to an exemple in your site). Overall the superfish package is very slick to use.

I have also discovered the Supersubs plugin to superfish. It tackles really elegantly that common issue of the width of the submenus and the length of its items.

On subtle issue I see is still there, that on FF some sub-item text are moving up 1px just after having been rendered.

Also one point on which I am still confused since our last talk on how to find an elegant way  to add background transparency to submenus, but having that background positioned from the bottom right corner of the submenu.
I can myself only imagine rather bad tricks to reach that goal.

Thanks a lot for this release.

-Olivier


Joel Birch wrote:

Hi everyone,

I just released Superfish 1.4.3. The documentation is completely
overhauled and now uses Mike Alsup's fantastic templates. Please let
me know if I've left anything incomplete - it's quite a big
nail-biting change.

The CSS has undergone further revision. Rather than each menu type
(horizontal, vertical, navbar) having it's own CSS file, now you
include superfish.css to create the standard menu-type, then add the
extra CSS file relevant to the alternate style, as well as adding an
extra class to the parent ul to suit. Hopefully the docs explain this
well enough.

http://users.tpg.com.au/j_birch/plugins/superfish/

Cheers
Joel Birch.

  

[Joel Birch]

Thanks Olivier!

Regarding the link to a pure CSS menu article, there is a link to A
List Apart article on the word "suckerfish" close to the top of the
Overview section as soon as you enter the page. Also, obviously the
demo CSS files do all the work for you anyway.

Regarding the 1px jump on text: this is something Firefox does that
can only be worked around by specifying vertical spacing (line-height,
padding, top, etc) in pixels, and that's definitely something that
would be worse than what it would solve. I guess we'll have to live
with that.

I don't remember the details of the background transparency issue you
mentioned - sorry.

Cheers for the reply!

Joel Birch.