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I'm in the unfortunate position of having to implement a drop-down cascading menu on a site I'm building. I'm looking for a Suckerfish-style solution that is primarily CSS-based and works on a simple set of nested ULs and LIs.
Son of Suckerfish seems like the way to go, but I don't like the way it just disappears the second you move the mouse away, as users with co-ordination difficulties will have a nightmare navigating the site (or just not bother, but since it's a corporate site there are some who will probably have to use whatever I implement).
Neat features that I've not even thought about needing are welcome, but the two main elements I'm looking for are:
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From a design standpoint, however, drop-down menus are an excellent feature because they help clean up a busy layout. If structured correctly, drop-down menus can be a great navigation tool, while still being a usable and attractive design feature. Yes, that's right: drop-down navigation menus can be user-friendly.
In General, Avoid Drop-Downs When There Are More Than 10 or Fewer Than 5 Options. Drop-downs quickly become difficult for users when they are presented with an overwhelming number of options to choose from.
I would strongly suggest that you use superfish, the jQuery adaptation of the suckerfish menu. It has loads of features (and delay is one of them), adds some fancy animation capabilities, and degrades to the normal suckerfish menu gracefully. It also doesn't need any extra markup.
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