Zukakakina

The last few days I've been working on the menus and "site header" parts of the themes.

Menus

In particular, there are problems in IE6 and, to a lesser extent, IE7 regarding the suckerfish menus. The CSS menus have become kind of a hodge podge in Tiki 3, with some work done on them prior to the last major TikiWiki release, then some refactoring and additions were done during the UI-revamp project, and finally the recent implementation of jquery has added more functionality but also another set of files. The present combination of things works, but isn't the most elegant arrangement. It will get sorted out as jquery is made a more central aspect of the code, I think.

In the meantime, my goal is to have the CSS menus look and work as well as the PHP Layers menus they're replacing. For the most part, this is already accomplished with the exception of some irritating quirks such as flickering in IE6 (apparently due to some javascript conflict).

Logos and banner ads

I was happy and relieved to see that the page-header banner ad will display properly even after the files have been worked on by various people over several months with no one, I think, actually testing the banner functionality. The main banner code seems to be broken, so as far as I can tell it isn't currently possible to configure the normal banner ad displays. But the detail of placing an ad in the header area works fine, and mainly survives the addition of new components in that area in some themes, such as the Coelesce and Strasa log-in and search forms.

Reworking the background image assignments is preventing nasty alignment problems when there's a large logo or logo + text site title + banner. Now the area simply expands, and the navbar, etc. move farther down but with their backgrounds intact and in place. (Well some of the themes being upgraded for Tiki 3 still have some problems, but these'll be fixed before long.)

There'll be a few more days of testing themes and browsers and combinations of items up in the site header area.