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Latency-friendly hierarchical menus using Unicode bullets and a bit of JavaScript

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JavaScript can expand hierarchical menus in place, without a page reload, but often these scripts are too fancy for their own good. Large scripts and lots of pretty icon images slow down page loads while trying to make fast menus. The result is a net loss and a slower web site. The main problem is network latency, which slows down loading external icon image and JavaScript files. Instead, use Unicode symbol characters to replace custom image icons, then minimize and embed the JavaScript on the page. The result is smaller, it has no external files adding latency delays, and it enables web pages to load much faster.

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