As i saw the coverflow effect in iTunes for the first time, i thought: That’s the way software should always be: Simple, intuitive and just a pleasure to look ar.
Unfortunately this effect can not be done with Javascript, but the developers of Apples website created a similar interface: The productbrowser, just have a look at Apples iTunes page.
Download the script (.zip) or have a look at this short documentation.
bas Image Selector is a plugin for Textpattern that allows you to add images to an article by selecting from an drop down list.
While using AJAX to load the image list, it is quite fast even for large image collections.
You can select images as article image or use the included tag builder to add images into body or excerpt.
For article images already saved there is also a preview function.
After i finished bas_EMFF, i found a videoplayer in Flash: Flvplayer by Jeroen Wijering
This Player streams videos in .flv-format.
bas_flvplayer implements it into Textpattern and you can stream videos with your txp-driven site,.
Perhaps Flash isn’t as bad as i ever thought. Two of prejudices about Flash are dissapered:
Embedding flash can be done using web standards and flash can be used for usefull things. Not only for 120 kB blinking buttons.
Flash scheint doch nicht so böse zu sein, wie ich immer dachte. Zwei meiner Vorurteile gegenüber Flash schwinden:
