[WEB4LIB] Open Cube's Applet Composer???

[Avi Rappoport]

If you use Java menus for your local site, be *sure* to have 
alternate links to get everywhere.  This provides several benefits:

- people with visual disabilities using speaking browsers can still 
use your site
- browsers with Java turned off can use your site
- browsers running on platforms you've never imagined (toasters? 
refrigerators?) can use your site
- search engine robots can index your site

Given this, I'd recommend using the plain links as the default 
navigation, and the menus as an alternate shortcut.  Also, by putting 
the Java on the front page of your site, you make people wait if 
their JVM wasn't already started.

Hope that helps,

Avi

At 7:30 AM -0700 9/3/1999, Anderson, Steven P. wrote:
>Good morning!  Have any of you used Open Cube's Applet Composer to design
>infinite menus like the one here: http://www.law.cornell.edu/ ?  The trial
>software seems balky on a 300 MHz Pentium II, and the help file seems nearly
>content-free. 
>
>And a few other related questions while I'm at it--are there any freeware
>applets that compose similar infinite menus, and is it a bad idea (because
>of stability, speed, etc.) to put a large applet navigation system on the
>entry page of an intranet?  Any ideas would be appreciated!
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