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Drupal Podcast No. 42: Listener Voicemail
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- LullabotPodcastNo42.mp3
Jeff Robbins, Robert Douglass, Jeff Eaton, Addi Berry, and James Walker discuss the latest Drupal-related news and answer some listener questions.
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Long titles in Drupal 6: The
Long titles in Drupal 6: The title field has been changed to 255 characters, literally while the podcast was being recorded.
http://drupal.org/cvs?commit=72200
beat me to the point
I was going to let you all know about this patch too. I submitted the feature request after my research group needed long titles for publication node types. Hopefully this will help out people in similar situations in the future.
Simplemenu
I really disagreed with your comments about simplemenu. I have had great success with simplemenu as opposed to nice_menu. I usually use simplemenu for the primary links and then use admin_menu for the admin menu dropdown. Simplemenu can be placed into any div using its config page, and can be fully themed. I think that simplemenu now operates very similarly to nice_menu but is working much better for browser compatibility. It seems to have improved a lot in the past few months, so probably you guys have not experienced its current glory. My opinion is that nice_menu is deprecated so Addi should be off the hook on that one.
http://drupal.org/project/simplemenu
Thanks for your great podcast. (First time I've disagreed...)
Simple Menu Does Not Degrade
Keep in mind that this module uses an ajax call to load in the menu. If the browser does not have Javascript enabled (such as most mobile devices), the menu will not appear. Also, the module does a separate bootstrap of Drupal in order to load the menu. This isn't particularly a big deal if it's just a few administrators who have access, but if you're using this as the primary navigation for your site, you are doubling the amount of hits to your site. Not a great idea if performance is a concern.
Simplemenu v3?
I am not a user of simplemenu, but in its latest version (http://tedserbinski.com/2007/04/07/simplemenu-3-0-released), the extra ajax call has been removed, and it should degrade gracefully.
I am based on the docs and not hands-on but if they are correct, it should be definitely worth checking.
Mostly correct
Yes, I noticed this. Putting the menu right into the javascript code in the header is definitely a performance improvement. However, "degrades gracefully" may be an overstatement. If Javascript is not enabled (or available) on the client browser, then the menu doesn't appear at all. This could be a problem if the menu is integral to your site navigation.
keewwl
great informative and fun podcast as usual folks- I was beginning to think I wasn't gonna get a lullabot pod fix, don't leave em so long I get withdrawal!! ; )
keep up the good work bots!
Thanks for fixing the podcast
Your podcast audio files once again play on non Mac computers :)
Audio Module
Sounds like Audio Module's ID3 functions were somehow corrupting them. I told it to leave them alone and everything seems to work a bit better now.