Tuesday, September 28, 2010

AnythingSlider

I've been working on improving the AnythingSlider jQuery plugin by Chris Coyier of CSS-Tricks.com. The project was moved to github, so you can always get the latest version there... My version is up to 1.4 and you can check out a demo of it here - try starting both YouTube videos, then start the slideshow (doesn't work in Internet Explorer properly).

Features include:
  • Panels are HTML Content (can be anything).
  • Multiple AnythingSliders allowable per-page.
  • Infinite/Continuous sliding (always slides in the direction you are going, even at "last" slide).
  • Optionally resize each panel (specified per panel in css).
  • Optional Next / Previous Panel Arrows.
  • Use keyboard navigation or tabs that are built and added dynamically (any number of panels).
  • Link to specific slides or go forward or back one slide from static text links
  • Each panel has a hashtag (can link directly to specific panels).
  • Optional custom function for formatting navigation text.
  • Auto-playing slideshow (optional feature, can start playing or stopped)
  • Pauses playing YouTube videos when not in view and resumes them when in view (only in non-IE browsers & if files are hosted on the web).
  • If slideshow is active, a playing video will complete before the slideshow continues.
  • Pauses slideshow on hover (optional).
  • Optionally play the slideshow once through, stopping on the last page.

Thursday, September 16, 2010

Switched file hosting sites

Apparently all the files hosted on myotherdrive.com are no longer available for direct linking. So I moved the important files over to dropbox.com and updated the appropriate posts.

Sorry if there was any inconvenience for anyone.