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Ajax loading image page

timo Member
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I've spent my time not studying for the past 24 hours and coded a jquery javascript file to add facebook-like dynamic image loading to zenphoto. Try it out (on any of the 33,000 photos) at t413.com. The current features for this are:

Loads any images' data a maximum of once per refresh, so no unnecessary server load.
Dynamic preloading (loads 2 images ahead, configurable)
Degradable. This is only an add-on. If JS is disabled then everything still works.
Keyboard navigation and click on the photo to advance.
Static linking enabled: each image still has its own url.
Back/forth still work.

There could easily be a lot more to integrate/do. I'm envisioning a built-in slideshow where it simply dims everything but the image and auto-advances.

What do you think?

Comments

  • sbillard Member
    Looks nice. How is it integrated? Is it a plugin or just themeing changes?
  • timo Member
    Right now it's just theming changes. If there's some interest I'd be happy to try to make it a plugin. The major problem I foresee is that each theme (mine included) has slightly different DOM layout than the next. I think a plugin could work for the default theme at least and then it could be integrated into others.
  • acrylian Administrator, Developer
    It's not that different from what the zpGalleriffic theme uses (the Gallerific script, which as additonally also thumbs)., isn't it? However nice and a theme or plugin with this would be welcome of course..;-)
  • souni Member
    timo: Are you going to publish your great theme for others? I would be very interested!
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