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Taken From The Forum: Help & Support for DHTML Menu Version 5+
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Last Updated: Saturday July 14 2012 - 06:07:59
Question on updating the newest menu scripts
Poster: perldev
Dated: Tuesday December 28 2004 - 14:56:07 GMT
Whenever the new scripts released, I update the three scripts: milonic_src.js, mmenudom.js and mmenuns4.js. My question is: shall I do this for every minior update? For an example: v5.63 to v5.64, can I only update milonic_src.js?
BTW, is there a "cvs diff" to tell the difference between any two versions?
Poster: bobwill
Dated: Tuesday December 28 2004 - 15:04:33 GMT
Yes you need to stay up to date with the latest version and you need to replace the three files that you mentioned. Make sure to keep a copy of the older version, just in case the latest release creates a problem with your menu setup.
You can check out the version information by going to:
http://www.milonic.com/menuvinfo.php
Poster: perldev
Dated: Tuesday December 28 2004 - 16:22:22 GMT
I am curious why Milonic produces three js files rather than one bigger js file.
Poster: Ruth
Dated: Wednesday December 29 2004 - 4:49:30 GMT
Well, there are probably better reasons, but one I can visualize is that with the mmenuns4.js module separate, if you don't need to support NN4 you can have fewer files. I'm not sure but NN 4 doesn't use the same underlying system [programming, whatever you call it] and doesn't support a lot of the newer things as the more recent browsers so perhaps having that as a separate module makes it easier to edit the programming? Just a guess
Ruth
Poster: perldev
Dated: Wednesday December 29 2004 - 16:51:57 GMT
Thank you Ruth. Browser loads either mmenudom.js or mmenuns4.js, it will save loading time. however it produces one more file request. I didn't test, don't know which one is faster. You know JS will be cached anyway. I prefer to update one bigger JS file rather than 3 separated files. Besides you have to write two more line codes:
Code:
if (ns4) _d.write("<script language=Javascript src=mmenujs4.js><\/script>")
else _d.write("<script language=Javascript src=mmenudom.js><\/script>")
else _d.write("<script language=Javascript src=mmenudom.js><\/script>")
Poster: Ruth
Dated: Wednesday December 29 2004 - 17:07:53 GMT
Sorry, I meant that many leave the mmenuns4.js file out, they just call the milonic_src.js and the mmenudom.js files, not using the if statement. And, again, I think it might be easier when doing updates and adding things to the menu functionality to have the mmenuns4.js and the mmenudom.js as separate modules.
Ruth