We're sometimes asked whether our heavyweight menu applets can read their parameters from an external text file instead of a web page. We don't usually build this option into menus for two reasons: (1) most users put our menus into a permanent navigation frame, so the parameters only ever need to be read once; and (2) the option to read from a text file adds a few kilobytes to the size of the applet, and we don't want to bloat applets with features that few people will use.
HTML-to-JS is a free utility can do what you want without adding anything to the size of the applet. It simply replaces the HTML <APPLET>...</APPLET> tag in your page with a call to a JavaScript file which builds the menu dynamically as the page loads. (Of course, you could use HTML-to-JS do convert any HTML to JavaScript in the same way!)
HTML-to-JS doesn't do anything particularly clever, but it does save a dull and laborious job. It can also create automatic backups of files it changes, saving you the trouble of remembering to do that yourself.
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