I updated the scripts to improve months listings.

docbuelle: Yep, IE/mac is a dog in regard to DHTML. It's already hard enough to make it work on IE/win and Mozilla. I guess Safari won't work either, at least konqueror, which uses the same rendering technology does not work for me.

Chronistin: Yeps.

it doesnt work in safari. but also not in chimera 0.6.

i like that. it is a nice graphical way to show the hierarchy, and i love that the number of stories within a date/topic is shown! too bad it doesn't work for everybody...

which is kind of a problem, I guess.

afaik there's already a bunch of dhtml scripts out there that exactly do what hannes is presenting here. probably the most interesting one being activerenderer because it renders xml files into a dhtml tree structure (even though the opml format might be a little dubious). and unfortunately, this only works with radio userland...

i did not evaluate if this api is cross-browser capable. but i am sure such scripts do exist and if we want to use such a cool navigation in antville we should get it from somewhere out there and only adapt it to antville's environment.

so +1 for the general idea, -1 for developing it ourselves.

I didn't even mean to add this to antville CVS, at least not to the main branch. I was mainly interested what users would say.

then i got you wrong. nevertheless i think in the moment antville supports folders a navigation like yours would be really nice, i'm just sceptical reg. dhtml.

I agree totally with robert: the world isn't ready for DHTML yet; the browser wars have totally ruined the technology and it will take some time until the majority of browsers will be reasonably compatible with ECMA, DOM etc. I'd also do it all on the server side.

Regarding browser detection: It's not only much more work, it's downright evil. It's not okay to contribute to shady corporate politics of big monopolists by spoonfeeding their browsers with something they can digest, while flipping users of every other browser the finger. I wouldn't recommend to do this: "Konqueror? Fuck off, you freak, we don't support you."

ist sehr groß, noch wichtiger als das mit dem datum.. find' ich. und, öhm, könnte ja auch html sein.

Version 3.0.4

but only because I applied a trick (I'm reloading the page if we're in konqueror or safari). I've removed that workaround now, so I guess it doesn't work anymore. However, you can probably make it work by manually reloading the page after opening a folder.

It's working on IE5/MacOSX and Mozilla/MacOSX, as I hear and see. Negative for Safari (although it looks very nice, but folder contents aren't loaded).