Monthly Archive for October, 2009

Galleriffic 2.0

Say hello to Galleriffic 2.0.

For first time readers, Galleriffic is a jQuery photo gallery optimized to handle high volumes of photos while conserving bandwidth. h0bbel has posted a nice read on some of the benefits of Galleriffic over other photo gallery scripts.

New Features

  • Keyboard Navigation
  • Support for synchronized transitions (image cross-fades)
  • Ability to add or remove images after the gallery is initialized
  • Support for custom hash identifiers (when using history)
  • Better API to make it easier to customize
  • Smarter pagination
  • Integration with the jquery.history plugin for history support

Warnings to users attempting to upgrade from version 1.0

  • The onChange event in 1.0 has been renamed to onSlideChange.
  • All transition event handlers have new signatures, so you will need to make sure to update any transition event handlers you have implemented.
  • Using synchronized transitions requires changes to your stylesheet - primarily the additional of relative and absolutely positioning so that two images can occupy the same space at the same time.

There are now 5 examples, each builds on the previous. For a visual treat, check out the last example, whose colors I inverted.