Introduction
ImageFlow is a picture gallery, which allows an intuitive image
handling. The basic idea is to digitally animate the thumbing through a
physical image stack. That intuitive handling is automatically caused
by the metaphorical use of the well known process of thumbing through.
This solution is known as the Cover Flow technique, which has been developed by the artist Andrew Coulter Enright. Now - after it has been bought by Apple - it is used in iTunes and the file browser of Apples OSX.
The innovation of this project lies in the JavaScript implementation,
which is platform independent. ImageFlow works with every browser, that
can handle images and supports JavaScript: And that is something almost
100% of all conventional graphical browsers can do.
You can trace the single developement steps in the Newsblog-Entries to ImageFlow. Parallel to this documentation exists an official project page: http://imageflow.finnrudolph.de.
Features
Compatible with all graphical browsers
Supports all image formats
Supports big amounts of images (>100)
Dynamic reflections (server sided via PHP)
100% JavaScript (but the reflections)
Scrollbar
Mouse wheel support
Arrow-key support
Loading bar
Captions
Supports image linkss
Scales 100% dynamically
Implementation by div Tags
Browser Compatibility
In the abstract the minimum system requirements for ImageFlow is a
graphical browser with JavaScript support. Since version 0.8 ImageFlow
is compatible with all conventional browsers. If you have test results
for other and/or older browsers, please let me know. ImageFlow has been
successfully tested with the following browsers in Linux, OSX and
Windows:
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