Jan 28th, 2010 by admin | No Comments »
Wow, what a week. For a web developer/designer/tech lover there has been a lot of new information in this first month of 2010 (at last we get to use the word “twenty” to describe the new decade — twenty-oh-four never rolled off the tongue). Not only did two of the best browsers get some nice updates, but Apple finally released their long-rumored tablet and Microsoft told users to stop using IE6. Oh, and then there’s PayPal.
Firefox and Chrome
First off, Mozilla and Google both released updates to their web browsers. Firefox 3.6 is out now, and in addition to some bug fixes it introduces eye candy known as “personas”, stale plugin protection, downloadable web font (WOFF) support, support for new CSS attributes such as gradients, background sizing, and pointer events, and support for new DOM and HTML5 specifications including the drag & drop and file API, which allow for more interactive web pages.
Google released the fourth version of their Chrome browser which added the ability to add extensions and sync bookmarks across multiple computers. They also have added more HTML 5 support including LocalStorage, Database API, WebSockets, and more. I like Chrome, but I still haven’t switched to using it as my primary browser (still Firefox). I think it’s making good strides but for the time being I still use it mostly for testing. I like it, don’t get me wrong, it’s just that Firefox and I are old friends and well, I don’t see a need to dump Firefox just yet.
The iTablet iSlate iPad
Just yesterday Apple released their long awaited tabled, the iPad. Almost instantly the jokes about the name iPad began to circulate around the Internet with no end in sight. I admit I also cringed at the name, and was hoping for something more inventive than iPad. While Apple’s iWhatever line is certainly good branding, it’s wearing thin on me and it’s inevitable that at some point they’ll need to come up with a better solution. Continue Reading »
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Jan 14th, 2010 by admin | 2 Comments »
This is just a short post to say that jQuery 1.4 has just been released and all CatchMyFame plugins are compatible. All demos have been updated to use the new 1.4 version. If you encounter any issues, please let me know.
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Jan 12th, 2010 by admin | No Comments »
This is a small update to my before/after jQuery plugin but since it introduced a new option I bumped the version number up by a point.
Version 1.1 introduces the option to specify the path to where you are storing the navigation images that come with the plugin. Previously you needed to either edit it by hand or use the folder that was coded in the plugin. Now you can specify the path on a per instance basis.
For more info, see the original before/after plugin page which has been updated with the latest information or see our jQuery plugin page which list all of our plugins.
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Dec 30th, 2009 by admin | 122 Comments »
As announced earlier, I’m happy to release version 2 of the jQuery Infinite Carousel plugin. What happened to versions 1.3-1.9 you ask? Well, since I overhauled the old plugin and added so many new features, it just seemed fitting to brand this release with a whole new version number. Heck I could’ve named it version Infinite Carousel, the “Illudium Q-36 Explosive Space Modulator” edition, but it seemed a bit wordy. Anyway, like it matters. All you want is the plugin right?
So What’s New?
Where to begin? Based on feedback from users, I’ve added more options than you can shake a stick at. Go on, get a stick. Shake. Can’t be done. There are so many new features that I was a bit worried that the plugin might suffer from option overload, but in the end I think what remained was not only useful but vital to the plugin. Continue Reading »
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Dec 22nd, 2009 by admin | No Comments »
I wanted to let everyone know that I’ll be releasing a new version of the jQuery Infinite Carousel in the week between Christmas and New Year’s Day. This new has TONS of new features and streamlines the existing code to make it more efficient, and includes many of the feature requests you have asked for. The new features include:
- The ability to control how many images are displayed at once
- The ability to control how many images are advanced automatically or when someone manually advances the carousel
- Player controls can be disabled
- Autohiding player controls
- Autohiding image captions
- Previous/Next buttons can be displayed over the images or outside and next to them
- The path to the player images is set as an option
- an Easy integration of the jQuery Easing plugin for cool transition effects (you can specify easing effects for the previous and next transitions)
- Easy lightbox integration (tested with fancybox, colorbox, balupton, and leandroviera)
- Callback functions
- Disabling the automatic start of the carousel
Stay tuned for more information and a lot of demos. Happy holidays!
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