Re: javascript slideshow, I wrote:
>Would the method used here:
>http://www.thecybercircus.com/bigtop/frosty/index.htm
>work for your project?
Suz wrote:
>> We've been thinking along the same lines. I'd already considered Tomas'
>> approach, which I thought was pretty cool workaround for Joe's
stipulation
>> of only 1 html page per entry for the Cybercircus.
>>
>> After giving it more thought, I'm not sure that even the Javascript slide
>> show will work like I want. I haven't loaded it online yet, but I'm
>> guessing that it preloads the photos rather than loading them
>> individually.
>> Right?
As Guido pointed out:
>No, that doesn't have to be that way. You don't have to massively
>preload all images at once. You could preload only the _next_ photo,
>maintaining the swift switching of images without burdening your
>visitors with excessive downloads. Then, while your visitor gleefully
>admires that next photo, your JavaScript behind the scenes quietly
>preloads the _second next_ photo with a 'new image' statement, and so
>on.
>> Ideally, I'd like to popout a fixed-size, nonresizable window with a nav
>> bar at the bottom, then have each photo load *individually* as the user
>> advances forward. That way, I can include as many photos as I
>> want without
>> having to worry about the total load time. (These are slides from an
>> Ecuador kayaking trip.) By loading them one at at time in a pop-up
window,
>> I won't burden the uninterested with dozens of photos, while those who
are
>> interested in going on the trip can linger for as long as they like.
>>
>> So, my current thinking is to pop out a frames page since that's the only
>> way I know of to achieve the margin-free look.
You could pop out a frameset to avoid the margins, or just do it with a
"regular" page in the popout and incorporate the margins in such a way that
they don't really matter to the viewer. IMO, I don't think it's going to
matter one way or another to the viewer, so I'd go with the basic (rather
than frames) popup. Having a margin may actually make the photos more
viewable, since they won't be butted right up against the window chrome.
Note, too, that MSIE lets you set margins to 0 in the body tag. Offhand, I
know that v4 will do it, not sure about v3.
Re: the slideshow sequence, you could do what you describe without any
javascript (except for creating the popup window). For a cgi-less solution,
just create a little html page for each image and set the forward and back
buttons so they load the next and previous page in the sequence. To increase
speed, you could preload the next image by loading it as a 1x1 image in the
"current" page. It'll show up as a little dot somwhere (shove it down at the
bottom), but the image on the next page will appear quickly, since it's
already in the browser cache.
Haven't tried the above method with img height=0 width=0, so I'm not sure
what happens if you do that.
Jack
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