[SOLVED] Drop-down Link Lists (suggestion)

I had an idea in bobo's July Feature Request thread that I think would be more useful given some explanation and example images to see it in action.

What I propose is a new list tag that makes drop down lists like when you click any of the shortcuts at the top of the forums (View Posts, Search, Quick Links) or your username above your avatar.

It's just another way of organization. I'll give you an example.

Here we have some links pertaining to a fansub group.



It's fairly well organized but with drop-down link lists it could be more compact.



Ah very good. Now let's click on one of the drop-down links.



See?


So let me propose some example code for that particular drop-down link list that would achieve this:

[list=url]Doremi-Fansubs
[*][url=http://doremi.theanimeconnection.net/]Website[/url]
[*][url=irc://irc.rizon.net/doremi]#Doremi @ irc.rizon.net[/url]
[/list]

Perhaps not all of you know this feature but in Mozilla, Mozilla Firefox, and Opera you can middle click with the wheel on your mouse on drop-down lists already used on GFF and it'll open the first link in the list in a new tab or window. I'd hope that this would be the same for these drop-down lists too. Perhaps it's just a browser thing but it'd be nice.


So what do you guys think? =o

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Wow that looks really cool.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Hmmmm it seems to have different effects in Firefox and Mozilla. I can't get CHz's nesting to work in firefox while it does work in IE7 but produces a few extra down arrows.




My post doesn't work at all in IE7 but perhaps that is because I copied CHz's smiley code and it might get confused over another instance or whatever. Dunno.

Also quoted pop-up link lists or whatever we're going to call them won't work when quoted in IE7. They work fine in Firefox though.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Yeah, it weirds out in Opera like IE7 does as well. I dunno what's going on.

How ya doing, buddy?

Yeah, I'm not sure calls to lists is very good since someone can make the same list name and force other lists that call the same name to change.

Perhaps code that worked more like what I put in the example would work better.

I was speaking idiomatically.

Awesome work, Blah! This is much better. Thanks! =D

Testing example from the first post:


Fansub torrents:
Doremi-Fansubs

Website

#Doremi @ irc.rizon.net

& Fighting Magic

Website

#FightingMagic @ irc.rizon.net

Episode 01
Episode 02

TV-Nihon

Website

#TV-Nihon @ irc.zirc.org

Episode 01
Episode 02
Episode 03 - NEW!



A note, you can bold, italicize, and resize the popup link text if you put bbcode just outside of the popup tags. It won't affect the text inside. Very nifty. =)

I just happen to think they look better bolded so I'm happy you can do it. =)


Testing nested popups:

Menu

items hammer mushroom frogsuit

worlds desert ice land dark world

Well it makes nests but you can click on the nested popups in firefox. Not that you'd ever really want to do that but it's a good test. I'm going to see how this post looks in other browsers.

Double Post:
That's a negative. Nested popups don't work in Mozilla 1.5, IE7, and Opera 9. I am happy to report that popups work mostly the same and correctly in all three browsers though. =)

Also, Opera 9 is the only one that can do marquee, Rock. Marquee shrinks the popup box for IE7. Opera is strange that it always refreshes whatever its hovered over so you can make the guy repeatedly smash the other dude with the lol sign in Blah's popup. ='D

So yeah basically I don't recommend using popup and marquee tags inside popup tags because they won't work. =P

How ya doing, buddy?

:cheese:

hi Rydia =)))

FELIPE NO

Oh shit! I thought the chocorate code was gone forever! Awesome news. I swear bobo said you wouldn't be able to make links to do it again.

Gonna go and put this in my sig. =)

What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?

Why? There's no size change in my sig at all. Psh... =/

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Yup. I very much enjoy that feature. =)

Double Post:
Just a note if these things aren't working for you like it wasn't for my friend then you probably need to update your java.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

You could try installing IE7 again and see if that works out for you.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.