sounds easy but not that easy when you're new to jQuery and JSON. also, working with the carousel object there is only configuration option params but how to work with that object is an unknown in terms of the jQuery carousel code itself
On Jun 26, 4:58 pm, pbindagorge <pmbar...@gmail.com> wrote: > Why not just convert the XML to JSON when it's returned from the > server (there are a variety of plugins that make this very easy), > iterate the JSON object to build the HTML/CSS that jCarousel expects, > inject it into the DOM and then call jcarousel() on it? > > On Jun 26, 1:58 pm, expresso <dschin...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > I sort of see examples in how to lazy load via AJAX request for the > > jCarousel. But the examples here are geared toward specific APIs such > > as Fickr. > > >http://sorgalla.com/projects/jcarousel/ > > > So basically what I'm trying to do is make a jQuery ajax request to > > one of our URLs that goes to an HttpHandler and spits back XML in the > > response. Obviously this is our own custom XML so I looked at the > > source examples on some of what he did with calling the Flickr url to > > defer loading but I don't know how hard it would be to tweak this plug- > > in or what to tweak in order to parse my own incoming XML in the > > response and then get the list items to show dynamically in the <ul></ > > ul> > > > So I don't know where to start on this. I guess I can look at the > > source of this plug-in but man, I will still need some assistance on > > this. We want to use this Carousel but we definitely cannot be > > loading the images without dynamically loading them on request because > > otherwise it would bog down our server being that we have thousands of > > people hitting the page that this Carousel will be on.
