Casey
On 1/13/06,
Tom Fakes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
My idea, coupled with the 'Ajax to get the next image' from Casey would
alleviate the image loading problem. The next image would just be
another element inserted as a child in my scheme.
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Gregory Hill
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Subject: RE: [Rails-spinoffs] anyone interested in an Effect.Slideshow?
> -----Original Message-----
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> [EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Tom Fakes
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> Subject: RE: [Rails-spinoffs] anyone interested in an
Effect.Slideshow?
>
> How about this:
> <div id="slideshow">
> <div id="a"><img .... /><div>Some
description</div></div>
> <div id="b"><img .... /></div>
> <div id="c"><img .... /></div>
> </div>
>
> Then:
> Effect.Slideshow("slideshow", { delay.... });
>
> This would take all the children of 'slideshow', and hide them all
except
> the first, and then switching between them as before.
>
> I like this better because I can now style each image as I want, and I
can
> also add text, or something else. It allows more freedom, and all the
> slideshow code does is hide/show the inner pieces without needing to
know
> anything about them.
>
> In this case, I don't even need images, I can do this with paragraphs
of
> text, or whatever else I can find to put in my child DIVs.
That's a great idea and shouldn't be too tough to implement. Of course,
if you have a lot of images, loading them all with the page might make
the page load slowly.
Greg
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