There have been a distinct lack of updates recently on FerretArmy.com – chock it up to having to do a lot of work-induced overtime over the past few months. Either way, in order to usher in some fresher content, I’ve updated my Image Overlay plugin to version 1.3. Changes are that you no longer need to specify image width and height, as well as being able to specify different animation speeds for the ‘in’ and ‘out’ animations. Hope you enjoy!
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jQuery UI Image Carousel
I’ve just released my latest plugin, the jQuery UI Image Carousel! The plugin is a standard-fare image carousel, and it’s also fully compatible with jQuery UI. It’s got a few options that make it fairly versatile – from a minimal look all the way to a collapsible version with a custom header.
The JavaScript itself wasn’t that daunting – version 1.0 clocks in at around 180 lines. Most of it is presentation management as well – making sure that the correct jQuery UI classes are applied to the markup, and so forth. In total, it was a bit of a longer exercise – there was a lot of work to insure compatibility with older versions of IE, for instance. I hope you enjoy, and if you use it, please take a sec to leave a comment with your page URL.
jQuery Image Overlay Plugin
I’ve created my first jQuery plugin this week – it’s an image overlay plugin (the static pic above doesn’t do the plugin justice, so click through to see it in action).
Creating a jQuery plugin isn’t that big a stretch for a competent JavaScript developer. There are quite a few tutorials out there where you can grab a template and start working very quickly. In addition to writing my plugin, I also made sure that it supported the metadata plugin, so that you can dynamically change properties on individual galleries and images, which should go a long way towards usefulness.
If you end up using this plugin, drop a line in the comments with a link so we can check out your work. Hope you enjoy!