Drop Down Menu Series
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Any questions, concerns, and comments
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MediaWiki Skin Releases
GuMaxDD 1.3 - Released August 8, 2010 (Preview at Drop Down Skin Development)
Release notes
- Updated to supprot mediawiki 1.16.0
System Requirements
- It will be tested on Firefox 3.5 and up version, Internet Explorer 6.0, Internet Explorer 7.0, and Safari 3.0.2.
- It will be tested and works with MediaWiki 1.16.0 and up version.
(GuMaxDD 1.3 166K).
GuMaxDD 1.2 - Released June 29, 2010 (Preview at Drop Down Skin Development)
Release notes
- new layout
- iPhone compatible
- Core code update according to new mediawiki release
- Other tweak based on feedback from users
System Requirements
- It will be tested on Firefox 3.0 and up version, Internet Explorer 6.0, Internet Explorer 7.0, and Safari 3.0.2.
- It will be tested and works with MediaWiki 1.14.0 and up version.
Special thanks to Ron Packard Jr. for providing me an iPhone, to allow me to develop and test this iPhone compatible skin.
(GuMaxDD 1.2 166K).
GuMaxDD 1.1 - Released July 5, 2009
Release notes
- Main menu items are clickable and linked to article themselves, this allows to have single menu item
- Updated according to MediaWiki 1.15.0 changes
- Fixed jQuery conflicts with other Javascript Lib.
- Other tweak based on feedback from users
System Requirements
- It will be tested on Firefox 3.0 and up version, Internet Explorer 6.0, Internet Explorer 7.0, and Safari 4.
- It will be tested and works with MediaWiki 1.15.0 and up version.
(GuMaxDD 1.1 109K).
GuMaxDD 1.0 - Released March 22, 2009
Release notes
- Drop down menu
- Customizable drop down menus, menus can be edited on the fly and easy to maintain
- New design and new layout
- Clean and professional
- Updates for new Medawiki releases
- Tweak based on feedbacks from users
System Requirements
- It will be tested on Firefox 2.0 and up version, Internet Explorer 6.0, Internet Explorer 7.0, and Safari 3.0.2.
- It will be tested and works with MediaWiki 1.11.1 and up version.
(GuMaxDD 1.0 104K).
Note
How to use it
- The Home link is hard coded, due to it's needed in most cases
- The drop down menu can be changed through page mediawiki:sidebar, the format should be like this:
- * First Menu
- ** mainpage|mainpage
- ** portal-url|portal
- ** currentevents-url|currentevents
- ** recentchanges-url|recentchanges
- * Second Menu
- ** randompage-url|randompage
- ** helppage|help
- ** sitesupport-url|sitesupport
- ...
- The page image name is same as page class name, which can be viewed through page source code and search body tag; for example, the main page is page-Main_Page; it's case sensitive, put the image file under folder gumaxdd/images/pages/
- Please report any bug to Forums