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This is part two of my script convertions. From scriptaculous to jQuery in just a few minutes of work. This time it’s the Panoramic Photoviewer to get a jQuery makeover.

A few highlights:
From 200 to 80 lines of code (wow).
Works in more browsers.
Lightweight due to jQuery usage.

For all the jQuery lovers: Here is the Panoramic Photoviewer. Now in jQuery!

Today I finally found the courage to go and try jQuery. After getting some people say: “You should use jQuery instead of scriptaculous.” I began thinking. What is the reason I choose script.aculo.us again? Must have been something I read in that time.
Anyway, today I found the time to look at jQuery a bit and thought: Let’s convert my very first posted script to jQuery!

After 5 minutes of reading about selectors in jQuery and 15 minutes of coding it was born. I am super amazed by the results! About 40%/50% less code and about 200% less time needed to write the script. I bet that in the future 400% less time is reachable!

For all the jQuery lovers: Here is the Garage Door effect. Now in jQuery!

Web designers, developers and web users know them. We all have run across one of these; the Javascript alert message. Most of the time, I don’t even read them and click them away. But the more important thing is that they just look ugly, no matter which browser you use.

So why not remake the whole Javascript alert function? This article will give you the basics of my customization of the alert message.

If you’ve been around the web for a while, you might have heard of Lightbox. And if you used it, you might also know the limitations.

One of those limitations is of course the fact that an image wider than your screen goes out of bounds. Very annoying! And it creates ugly scrolbars.

As you might know, I have created a Panoramic Photoviewer in Javascript to fix the problem of images going out of bounds. And I thought to myself: “Why not try and implement PhotoNav on top of Lightbox?”. With this, even super large images would be viewable.

I created LightNav for this. It runs along Lightbox without changing the script, so you can always update Lightbox if needed.

As a webdesigner you might have had this problem: “I’ve got a nice looking wide image, but I don’t want my visitors to scroll horizontally.”

A colleague showed me a new project he was working on. A large image appeared and I had the ability to drag and move the image around in a container. Not super efficient if you ask me, I still had to grab the image and move it around holding my mouse button. Can’t there be an easier way?

This article will show you my solution to the problem and maybe even a different approach on navigation.