[Geomoose-users] GeoMOOSE 2.0 Planning - The menu bar.

[Dan Little]

Hey Everyone,

I'm working on GeoMOOSE 2 and I'm trying to mull over the menu bar.  If I had my way it would be gone, but I think I've seen enough people using it to where I don't want to do that. :-)

I am, however, thinking about integrating the Menu definition into the Mapbook for mapbook version 2.0.  This would have a few advantages:
1) Decrease the number of files needed to be downloaded at start-up
2) Decrease the amount of XML that needs to be parsed.
3) Decrease the amount of bugs in IE and Opera, where the multithreaded AJAX support is buggy despite all claims otherwise.
4) Defining the menu bar would be come consistent with the new way of defining the tool bar.

There's only one disadvantage as I see it, you could forseeably have installations that all use the same menu bar, but different mapbooks and not wish to change individual mapbooks if one is making a global change to the menubar.

I'd love to hear some feed back on this. 

Thanks,

-Duck