DHTML HierMenus charging for menu

disaster-master's picture

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Can you believe that they are charging for the DHTML HeirMenus featured at Webreference? Roll eyes

Any comments on this?

Abhishek Reddy's picture

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I think its sad that javascripts cost money (especially US$30 :eek: ). *Sigh* I guess noose really is tightening on the free nature of the web... Sad

Can you imagine having to pay for membership on forums like TWF? :eek:
Or does it already exist?

Megan's picture

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I think it does in some places (paying for forum memberships) - there was a conversation about this in Internet Business Disucssion awhile back.

I guess you could consider these hiermenus to be a specialized program, like a piece of software almost so I think it makes sense to charge for them. This is a very complex script that most people wouldn't be able to program themselves. It is also fairly hard to find a script like this that will work in all browsers and is easy to set-up (there are a few that I know of Smiling).

However, and this is the big "but" in this scenario - these Hiermenus DO NOT work in Opera! If it was completely cross-browser compatible I could see paying for it but otherwise.... no.

detox's picture

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I cannot believe that!

well atleast people like bratta are still free.

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Quote: Originally posted by detox
well atleast people like bratta are still free.

Not really - but Thomas is only charging one person directly Wink He also states that his time will be devoted to the site in relation to how much money it brings in.

Kinda free I guess Smiling

Mike

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