Rails spinoffs - Jan 2006 - Scriptaculous and Photo Flipper a la TagWorld?

I saw a Flash-based photo-flipper on TagWorld (
http://www.tagworld.com/thepostalservice) and thought it would be nice to do
something similar in Scripaculous. Anyone interested in taking a shot at it?

Since rotation isn''t supported in CSS, what I would imagine would be a
z-ordered "stack" of DIVs, possibly of slightly different sizes or
just
x/y-offset a bit from each other. On timer or onclick, the top one slides in
some determined direction/distance, pauses, then slide back to its original
position, but with the lowest z-order value. Being able to resize (zoom in
when a pictures moves to the front) would be even sweeter.

Seems like this could be done with existing Scriptaculous effects and some
sort of Queue, but I''m afraid I''m a real Scriptaculous novice
at this point
and can''t say for sure.


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Well, I''m working on a scriptaculous-based slideshow object right now.
Since you can set custom effects to be used to show/hide the photos, and
you can set the delay between swapping photos, I would think something
like that would be possible.  I''m hoping to have some code to share
this
week sometime.

 

Greg

 

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I saw a Flash-based photo-flipper on TagWorld
(http://www.tagworld.com/thepostalservice) and thought it would be nice
to do something similar in Scripaculous. Anyone interested in taking a
shot at it? 

Since rotation isn''t supported in CSS, what I would imagine would be a
z-ordered "stack" of DIVs, possibly of slightly different sizes or
just
x/y-offset a bit from each other. On timer or onclick, the top one
slides in some determined direction/distance, pauses, then slide back to
its original position, but with the lowest z-order value. Being able to
resize (zoom in when a pictures moves to the front) would be even
sweeter. 

Seems like this could be done with existing Scriptaculous effects and
some sort of Queue, but I''m afraid I''m a real Scriptaculous
novice at
this point and can''t say for sure.



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