Staticfree Blog 17 08 2008

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I have been prowling the concrete wilderness for 11 hours, 21 minutes, and 56 seconds. Before that, I was at the Mobile Experience Lab.

Sun, 17 Aug 2008

JQS5 - jQuery Simple Standards-Based Slide Show System

/code/ @ 19:58 on Sun, 2008-08-17

In a valiant effort to procrastinate the writing of a presentation, I put together JQS5. This is a very simple jQuery + Javascript Slide Show engine. It can turn the most basic document, such as this one, into a slideshow.

The concept is based on S5 which is a wonderful HTML slideshow engine. S5, however, requires you to add more markup than I care to worry about. JQS5 doesn't require any special markup to your document. Just add in the header and you're set!

As no special markup is required to make it go, I threw together jqs5.xsl which is a simple XSLT stylesheet to add in the appropriate headers to your XHTML document. As my site is all XHTML, I added a site-wide filter that lets me look at any page as a slideshow. See my projects page for an example.

Go check it out!

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