TrailingArrow

Wow… I thought I tested it in IE6 /7 but I must have changed something afterwards to break the layout. I’ll take a look into the issue and fix it ASAP .

The patch has been submitted. It has been tested using Internet Explorer 8’s IE7 compatibility mode, and also using IE6 . There were only minor syntactical changes that had to be made to the demo; the script itself works fine on those two browser versions. As soon as it’s reviewed you can rest assured that it’ll work in these older versions of IE.

The patch has been approved; those problems should be solved.

Reading over a few LavaLamp tutorials, I can tell you that LavaLamp does have similar features, but the setup (especially CSS ) looks much more complicated than that of TrailingArrow. In addition to the higher setup difficulty, naming practices (such as list-item class names) are strongly enforced in LavaLamp, whereas TrailingArrow affords you ultimate flexibility with this. It is true that LavaLamp allows you to create moving overlays for list items, but this is one of the updates currently planned for TrailingArrow. I’m not sure if LavaLamp has any planned (as I haven’t looked deep enough to find a Roadmap), but it’s quite possible that the creators of LavaLamp may be less motivated to update it since it is free software.

The entire simplicity of LavaLamp lies in the fact that naming practices (i.e. classes) on the elements are enforced. That is the information I gleaned from looking at some samples of LavaLamp. The javascript code may be simpler, but the CSS is needlessly complicated.