Whoa! I just discovered some interesting things in the iWeb XML. Get a load of this… the stylesheet *appears* to now support two styles for sidebars. Who wants to bet we’re going to see that and built-in vertical navigation menus in the next release of iWeb??
You found this sidebar info in the current version of iWeb 2.0? Could it be code for a feature they might have intended to release and then didn’t at the last minute?
What you found is probably for *real* sidebar, unless they change the way they do navbar in the next version. The current navbar is rendered by javascript widget and CSS is part of the widget, so vertical navbar can be easily done with javascript… as I did ;)
The problems with current navbar are:
1) nav layer z-index, it’s the lowest one… so moving it around with other layers can be problems. Navbar won’t work when get over lapped by other layers, we saw plenty of those in iweb1.
2) currently page layers are fixed width (easier for them to do). They will have to make adjustable and independent width for every layer (if they want to keep z-index).
ie: header layer and footer layer can be wider than body layer so that nav layer can be side by side with body layer.
What I found were entries for the stylesheet. These are new to the XML - never before have there been any entries referring to a sidebar area, ever. So one would have to say that there would not be a stylesheet entry if there weren’t going to be an area called “sidebar”.
These were for the text and headers within the sidebar. I’m sure the dimensions and functionality will be handled by a widget, yes, like the navigation menu.
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You found this sidebar info in the current version of iWeb 2.0? Could it be code for a feature they might have intended to release and then didn’t at the last minute?
Hi Suz,
What you found is probably for *real* sidebar, unless they change the way they do navbar in the next version. The current navbar is rendered by javascript widget and CSS is part of the widget, so vertical navbar can be easily done with javascript… as I did ;)
The problems with current navbar are:
1) nav layer z-index, it’s the lowest one… so moving it around with other layers can be problems. Navbar won’t work when get over lapped by other layers, we saw plenty of those in iweb1.
2) currently page layers are fixed width (easier for them to do). They will have to make adjustable and independent width for every layer (if they want to keep z-index).
ie: header layer and footer layer can be wider than body layer so that nav layer can be side by side with body layer.
until then, javascript widget.
What I found were entries for the stylesheet. These are new to the XML - never before have there been any entries referring to a sidebar area, ever. So one would have to say that there would not be a stylesheet entry if there weren’t going to be an area called “sidebar”.
These were for the text and headers within the sidebar. I’m sure the dimensions and functionality will be handled by a widget, yes, like the navigation menu.