One of the things you can't get away from if you work in web development / design is the
need for a good navigation system and while many different methods have been attempted
(see some great fish-eye navigation systems out there and of course,
The Brain) people still keep
returning to the systems they are used to. As such, drop-down menu systems are in great use
(with some very sketchy implementations).
One of the things I was interested in was how you would go about doing it without the need
for huge javascript dependencies. Enter the genius' at
meyerweb.com
and with a large shout out to the guys at
htmldog.com
- see their great example.
The dropdowns below are taken from the
htmldog example page
and give a grand example of what can be acheived.
The nature of the structure also means that if you turn off CSS support,
the page still presents a well formatted list of links. (Go on - you know you can if you use a
decent browser
with the right extensions.