JQuery :: Image Preload Animation Plugin For Webpages?
Sep 23, 2010
I'm trying to find a JQuery plugin that will:
a) preload all img's and background's on a given page
b) display an animated gif in the center of the original's img's or background's container
c) fade out showing each image once it's downloaded
d) as a consequence of (a) allow the page to render (show) quicker even if (depending on server speed, connection speed and user computer speed) the remaining images are still in a 'load state'.
e) is based on JQuery so not to increase page's footprint via adding Mootools, Prototype, YUI or the like (unless the additional 100KB or so is so worth it).
I've scouted Google and there a few out there but amazingly none seem to focus on doing this for a web page's image's but rather seem to focus on galleries/lightbox windows and so forth.
does anyone know a good online resource that shows you how to do image sliders on a web page? For example, I have a image and a arrow (image) above this and the position of the arrow is dependent on a value (which I have).
This is what I am seeking: On the main page we have 3 different images (img1, img2, img3), that must link to another page (photo page) with a photo in the middle enlarged: for example if I click img1 i will go to the photo page with img1 enlarged in the middle, and if I click img2 will go to the photo page with img2 in the middle. the photo page has photo thumbnail sliding at the bottom of the page that links to the same middle enlarged photo based on the clicked photo. is it doable with JS? or should I look somewhere else?
I have this working fine, and I can append the preloaded image to a hidden div then fade the div in for a smooth effect.
Problem is I want to set this preloaded image as a css background image, not as a <img /> in a container. But if when the image is loaded, instead of .prepend() I do .css() and set the css property of a background-image to be the preloaded images URL, then when it carries on with displaying it the browser loads the image again. Rather than using the preloaded one.
I want the image to be a background image as I want it centered in the page background, even if it is too large for the viewport.
I'm trying to preload an image before it fades in and I'm using the following code to do so. Could someone please tell why it doesn't work? The layer fades in and then the image suddenly shows up.
I have a large image that I change by clicking on some small images to change it.
I use this code to preload images and then fade in, but it doesn't look nice. Once the images are cached into the computer the fading is perfect, but the first time it seems like it fades at the same time as it loads. I wonder if it could be done in some other way? Perhaps use a callback or preload all images into an array, but I'm new and don't really knows how to put i together yet?
I want to adjust the layout of the default lazy susan animation for this plugin. There are 5 slides. How would I need to adjust the JavaScript so that there are always 2 slides on the left and two slides on the right of the main slide that happens to be in focus? The shapes plugin offers a figure 8 shape that does this, but the animation style is not what the client wants.
Here's the URL with the working code. I've adjusted line 88 in the JS file, and it sort of gets me there: Code: var period = jQuery.roundabout_toFloat(180.0/ref.children(options.childSelector).length) //this is the original line var period = jQuery.roundabout_toFloat(360.0/ref.children(options.childSelector).length);
For panning and fading some pictures I use the jquery plugin crossslide. As you see at my example I have problems with the animation, because it stutters and shakes a lot: Personal Crossslide Example Do you know other plugins, which can create this effect?
I've used the jQuery Timers plugin [URL] to animate through my client's "five steps" on this page: [URL] but is there a way to get it to continuously loop through the animation? The documentation page [URL] doesn't seem to cover anything like that.
I would like to open an overlay DIV onclick or onload, much like thickbox or shadowbox does. Here's the hard part - I would like to have it animate and shrink it to the top right corner of the page when the popup is closed. The reason for this is so that the user will know how to get that popup window back open. The popup will animate and minimize to the top right of the page, where the button to re-open the popup (ie. overlay) will be located.
[url]- I would like the "current issue" graphic to be clickable and open the "subscribe" popup with an animation to zoom it from 0 to full size and center it on the page.
I got a script that rotates my images, but I have almost 300 in stock and it is preloading all 300 once the script is started. How do I get it to preload one at a time, or nothing at all? Code:
This isn't working and I can't figure out what I'm doing wrong:
var c_imgs = new Array( 'images/champascari.jpg', 'images/champfangio.jpg', 'images/champhawthorn.jpg', 'images/champhill.jpg', 'images/champsurtees.jpg', 'images/champlauda.jpg', 'images/champschumacher.jpg'); var pre_img; for (var i = 0; i < c_imgs.length; i++) { pre_img[i] = new Image(); pre_img[i].src = c_imgs[i]; }
If this code is correct, should I put it in a function and then call for it ?
I want to use an image as a CSS background-image so I used the Image constructor to load the image: [URL] but I noticed that the browser (Firefox) load the image from the URL and not from the memory when changing the background-image property (it takes about 1.5 seconds before showing the image, and every time I reload the page!)
Basically what I'm trying to achieve is when a new image is selected(clicked), the 'click' passes the new image name (and width, height) to the 'changeimg' function, I want this function to fade the current img so we can see the back ground wait img. then when the new image has preloaded successully, replace the current image and fade it back to full. It appears to do this mostly, but its not preloading the image, sometimes the contain will exapand to the new size and I'll see the image loading into it.
I'm wondering if I'm using the preload (new Image()) correctly, I cant locate any examples similar to what I'm doing. Most exapmles I see all appear to be to do with image rollovers. Which isn't what I need, I also do not want to pre load any images until they have been requested.
I would like to know which plugin can help me achieve an animation of frames like the one seen on [URL]where you can click and drag the ipad to see it's cover functionality). I don't need the click and drag, just the animation, as I would set it on an auto animation.
I've got 2 questions if that's OK. I have a number of scripts running on a site i'm working on and I think I may be getting a clash with the image preload and another font resizing script. As I am new to javascript I have picked up the code from elsewehere. I am trying to get my head around it reading tutorials etc but am getting stuck when it comes to multiple scripts on the page
There are a number of scripts running: browser detect, png opacity, image preload, layer show/hide and a font resize.
here is the site
Q1 In IE5.5+ on the PC neither the font sizer nor the image preload is working - i think it is a clash of onload events. Can anyone suggest a fix?
Q2 I think there must be a better way to have my images preload. The current code is the dreamweaver version. Is there a better way?
function MM_swapImgRestore() { //v3.0 var i,x,a=document.MM_sr; for(i=0;a&&i<a.length&&(x=a[i])&&x.oSrc;i++) x.src=x.oSrc; }
function MM_preloadImages() { //v3.0 var d=document; if(d.images){ if(!d.MM_p) d.MM_p=new Array(); var i,j=d.MM_p.length,a=MM_preloadImages.arguments; for(i=0; i<a.length; i++) if (a[i].indexOf("#")!=0){ d.MM_p[j]=new Image; d.MM_p[j++].src=a[i];}} }
function MM_findObj(n, d) { //v4.01 var p,i,x; if(!d) d=document; if((p=n.indexOf("?"))>0&&parent.frames.length) { d=parent.frames[n.substring(p+1)].document; n=n.substring(0,p);} if(!(x=d[n])&&d.all) x=d.all[n]; for (i=0;!x&&i<d.forms.length;i++) x=d.forms[i][n]; for(i=0;!x&&d.layers&&i<d.layers.length;i++) x=MM_findObj(n,d.layers[i].document); if(!x && d.getElementById) x=d.getElementById(n); return x; }
function MM_swapImage() { //v3.0 var i,j=0,x,a=MM_swapImage.arguments; document.MM_sr=new Array; for(i=0;i<(a.length-2);i+=3) if ((x=MM_findObj(a[i]))!=null){document.MM_sr[j++]=x; if(!x.oSrc) x.oSrc=x.src; x.src=a[i+2];} }
I have just added a jQuery fade plugin onto a page to automatically cycle through images in an unordered list without a click event. It works well but when I preview the page with JS disabled all images become visible and it messes up the layout. What I need is a method that works when JS is disabled. I have seen methods where the {display:none} CSS styles are applied then changed via JS but can't figure this out. If anyone can either recommend a decent plugin with provisions for JS disabled browsers
I'm trying to get a simple series of images to fade sequentially to create a slide show/image rotator effect. The effect works flawlessly in Firefox, Chrome, Safari and even IE 7 but for some reason nothing happens in IE 8. The slide show images don't display at all and the only thing that is visible is the default background image.If you go tou'll see the issue in (in)action (in you're using IE8).The relevant code from the page is:
i want to resize a image to make a "shrink" effect. it should get smaller and smaller from top right to bottom left, if you know what i mean ;)right now iam using this to animate my image, but it does only shrink to the top left, not to the bottom: