Open-source...windmills?
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Before coming home last week, I had the pleasure of taking a tour of some of the oldest windmills in Holland, courtesy of my customer in Rotterdam. I had a wonderful time taking a few photos of some of the nineteen windmills, preserved and functioning. In eighteen of these (one is reserved for visitors), people live inside the windmills and rules govern how much they must let the windmills turn each year. They were built in the 1730s and 1740s, and follow a canal.
If you've clicked on the link above, you've figured out by now what the title of this entry means - yes, another fun open-source JavaScript trick that I've incorporated into Blogsphere. It's the Lightbox JS toolkit, available here. Dependent on Prototype and Scriptaculous like many effects-based scripts, Lightbox gives you the ability to really show off images by dimming the remainder of the screen, not navigating away from the page, and with a little thought and work, presenting a set of images that are navigable inside the show. Go ahead, click the link again and scroll over the image - you will see a "Next" icon appear that lets you scroll through the four photos I've uploaded.
In a future posting I'll show you how to do this in plain old Domino. There are a few tricks, especially if you've changed the server setup to generate "!" instead of "?" in Domino URLs like I have. Why? That's another story...
Before coming home last week, I had the pleasure of taking a tour of some of the oldest windmills in Holland, courtesy of my customer in Rotterdam. I had a wonderful time taking a few photos of some of the nineteen windmills, preserved and functioning. In eighteen of these (one is reserved for visitors), people live inside the windmills and rules govern how much they must let the windmills turn each year. They were built in the 1730s and 1740s, and follow a canal.
If you've clicked on the link above, you've figured out by now what the title of this entry means - yes, another fun open-source JavaScript trick that I've incorporated into Blogsphere. It's the Lightbox JS toolkit, available here. Dependent on Prototype and Scriptaculous like many effects-based scripts, Lightbox gives you the ability to really show off images by dimming the remainder of the screen, not navigating away from the page, and with a little thought and work, presenting a set of images that are navigable inside the show. Go ahead, click the link again and scroll over the image - you will see a "Next" icon appear that lets you scroll through the four photos I've uploaded.
In a future posting I'll show you how to do this in plain old Domino. There are a few tricks, especially if you've changed the server setup to generate "!" instead of "?" in Domino URLs like I have. Why? That's another story...
Comments
How did you import the Lightbox .js files in BlogSphere? I am getting "Text on clipboard must be less than 64K bytes in order to be pasted" errors while creating the .js file (prototype.js is 47 KB in filesystem) or
"Field is too large (32K) or View's column & selection formulas are too large" when saving a smaller (32KB) effects.js.
Any hints?
Fred
Posted by Fred Janssen At 12:30:42 PM On 03/30/2007 | - Website - |