I am looking at using hMenu in a web application. This application requires the use of a secured connection (https). If the user has enabled the "do not save encrypted pages to disk" option in Internet Explorer, the user will experience significant slowdown when accessing submenus at any level. On every mouseover event, the browser reloads the rarrow-hover.gif. Similarly, on mouseout, the browser reloads the rarrow.gif. While these two images are roughly 75 bytes each, the delay is very noticable, even over a LAN. In my test example, I have the timeout variable set to 0.

Is there a work-around for this? It would be great if a developer could specify a CSS style and a string of characters to be used in place of an image. For example, ">" or "»" would be fairly equivalent.