PirateMachine Software

I put this site up some time ago with a template I cobbled together in few minutes.

I wanted to have some sleek JavaScript effects for the menu, and I decided to go with a "Mac OS X Dock" theme for the menu system.

This site is for my Mac OS X open-source and freeware software.

for the overall template, I tried to recreate as many aqau UI elements as possible.
Being a Mac-centric site, windows users are openly welcome, but IE is not supported. PirateMachine recommends Mozilla FireFox.
http://piratemachine.org

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Dr. Scotty Delicious, Scientist.

Pretty Nifty!

Good work my friend! keep it up!

best regards.

Very nice Scot-rock... how’d you do the dock menu?

You never cease to amaze me ScottyD! Great site and another example of MODx sites can be just about anything you want them to be...

RAmen brother! Long live the pirates!

Quote from: rthrash at Mar 14, 2007, 05:04 PM

Very nice Scot-rock... how’d you do the dock menu?

Thanks everyone.

The dock menu is a very simple, plug and go implementation of the fisheye plugin for jQuery.
http://interface.eyecon.ro/demos/fisheye.html

I am more and more amazed with jQuery every time I look at it. I have officially ditched mootools in favor of jQuery.

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Dr. Scotty Delicious, Scientist.

Cool site, Scotty! Love the dock menu, that is definitely one I’ll have to play about with in my spare time.

I wish Safari would play right and not get all foofy and behave very un-piratelike with the menu labels tho...

Yeah... I am not sure why the WebKit/KHTML engine is holding on to those <span>’s tempermentally. It seems positional. If you scroll across the icon between the icon and it’s reflection, it seems to work normally, but yeah... it’s a pain in the ass.

Dojo also has a fisheye (dock) menu like this one, but It degrades very poorly as the images are loaded via javascript, so if javascript is off, the menu disappears entirely. Using the Interface/jQuery menu, if javascript is disabled, the menu and images still appear, though there is no animation or menu labels.

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Dr. Scotty Delicious, Scientist.

Very cool menu!

But unfortunately it doesn´t work on IE6. I have a standard IE6 for testing, all settings are out of the box. There is a JS error: "Error: 80020101" (I love this detailled debugging ). The page is covered with a 80% black and a not loaded image in the middle, nothing clickable. I can provide a screenshot if you like.

In IE7, I get the page - no javascript errors and no menu is visible - hope that helps to debug