-= JB =- wrote:
I could not download the code either. I am using a Mac and a lot of times
that right click stuff doesn't seem to do what you would expect.
Would love the code if you make if available another way.
Nice looking pictures by the way.
-=>JB<=-
OK I've been working on this every evening for a few days, tweaking things.
I made a page with all the code.
Thanks for everyone's input, I cobbled it all together.
Updated iRev code is here:
http://www.himalayanacademy.com/runrev/iRev_slideshow.html
One useful bit you will find there is an embed for driving MP3's in
almost any browser-platform: I took me hours to find that thing and
it's been tested on Mac, Windows 7 Vista, EEPC, and HP Notebook running
Windows. etc.. and so far everyone can hear the music.
No Java Script yet, but I will probably break down sooner or later.
What I love about this: I don't have to touch Flash, SWF template XML
params, Action Script, there is no back end MySQL Dbase to hold the
configurations and metadata, captions etc. (you would be amazed at some
of the overhead in some slide show frameworks!)
This CMS is the kind I like.
How simple is this and scaleable
1 folder: photos and caption files
1 iRev template file! ( I have three templates now)
1 iFrame (if you want to embed)
It allows for a) scale b) innovation c) content is not "buried" inside a
maze so deep that you can never restructure or refactor your
presentation without huge man hour overhead.
Next "invention" will be adding voice over for each slide, where
photo.jpg # is the image
photo.txt # is the caption
photo.mp3 # is the voice over.
Caveats:
1) I never liked having captions "popup" over photos (the Flash-DHTML
way) on the other hand I'm not sure I like scrolling divs (overflow
css) with such a fat scroller on an HTML page, but it works.
2) without Javascript there are no transitions. But I'm working on the
principle that "it's not the bells and whistles... its the content! If
you have high quality [images, sound, video, music] then your viewers
really don't care about the wrapper too much.
3) I'm still fishing for the "right rect" and worry that I may be
making things a bit too big for the steadily growing world of small
devices/screens.
Sivakatirswami
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