So here’s a bit of a u-turn! For several years now I have been an advocate of MooTools object orientated approach to Javascript app development. After unhappily spending much time working with Prototype and briefly touching on early jQuery, MooTools came along as a champion boasting OOP class implementation and easy scope management amongst a wealth of other great features. It is therefore with great sadness that today marks my defection to jQuery.
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Coming soon HTML5, CSS3, jQuery awesome and my journey into Ruby on Rails, but first Sublime Text 2, probably the worlds best text editor for code? Yeah I think it might be.
Defection to jQuery
mooSlideBurn – another javascript slideshow
During the production of this website I began looking for a special type of slideshow to showcase my designs. The effect I was trying to achieve was something similar to apple’s® iMovie™ fade and burn style slideshow, itself based on the well known Ken Burns effect pioneered for documentaries like The Civil War (1990) and Baseball (1994)
After searching high and low for an existing javascript slideshow that implemented this effect I decided nothing was currrently freely available that fit the bill, and I should write it myself.
So here it is, and if you like and want to you it in your own site, please go ahead. The slide show is released under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License and is for use free of charge for personal/commercial use and can be adapted or modified provided credit is given to the author in the source code.
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