[TYPO3-core] RFC #6525: Feature: wrapItemAndSub for GMENU

[Helmut Hummel]

Hi Ernesto,

Ernesto Baschny [cron IT] schrieb:
> Helmut Hummel wrote: on 27.09.2008 17:12:
>>> http://wiki.typo3.org/index.php/GTMENU) makes a combination that might
> 
> Hm, don't understand your argument, GTMENU doesn't rely on javascript,
> it is a CSS based "trick" to replace the title text with graphics.
> GMENUs are used to do this, because TYPO3 already generates it. GTMENU
> is an IProcFunc which places the images in CSS and replaces them inline
> with the text of the titles.

Oh, my. I was talking about a totlly different implementation of the 
same idea:

http://snipplr.com/view/5929/accessible-gtmenu/

This one does not rely on JavaSript, but does the trick only by changing 
CSS background position ...

>> So what about changing the whole GMENU stuff to generate HTML-code, that
>> is accessible and generates the whole needed CSS for the UL and LI, that
>> makes it fully functional _without_ the need of changing the TS code.
> 
> We will still at least need the "wrapItemAndSub" configuration. So lets
> first add that.

Well, my vision was, that would not be needed, but automatically 
generated ...

>> By making it dependend of a compat_version, users of a new 4.3
>> installation benefit from the whole power of the new G(T)MENU, whereas
>> it will not break anything during an update process.
> 
> Well, this is all fine, but another topic, which might be, as Masi
> suggested, discussed in the -devel or even in the "content rendering"
> group mailing list.

... but I agree, this needs to be discussed elsewhere.

Kind regards
Helmut