I started this activity by returning to google and doing a number of searches for javascript slideshows, javascript image gallary, ajax slideshow and finally ajax image gallary.
There were several sites that came back with 20 to 30 different options. Most were oriented towards displaying a gallery of images on a traditional website and were more complex than what I was looking for.
After much searching and reading I settled on the ones listed below and set them up to test from the Wii.
- Highslide
- Lightview
- Floatbox
- dojo.image.SlideShow
- Slideshow2
- Simple Controls Gallery
Generally my experiences were not as favorable as I had hoped. Several of the routines didn't work while others had some quirk that made them less than optimal.
One of the more unfortunate problems I ran into was that the Wii would issue a sound confirmation when it finished loading images. This along with the blue status bar was distracting.
Highslide
Available from: http://highslide.com/.
This software worked but the controls were awkward.
Lightview
Available from: http://www.nickstakenburg.com/projects/lightview/
I wasn't able to get this software to work on the Wii. The first time a series of images are loaded they don't display right. The next time they do.
Available from: http://www.google.com/uds/solutions/slideshow/helloworld.html
This software worked but requires that images be on a server that is publicly accessible to the Internet. As I was looking for an easy way to pull photographs from my own internal server this wasn't going to work for me.
Floatbox
Available from: http://randomous.com/floatbox/home
I wasn't able to get this software to work on the Wii.
Dojo
Available from: http://www.dojotoolkit.org/
The dojo routine worked as long as you used v1.1.1. The Dojo library doesn't appear to work on the Wii's Opera Browser for any version of Dojo after v1.1.1. This caused some problems as the dojo.image.SlideShow in v1.1.1 didn't work quite right. This was fixed by taking the slideshow widget from a later verison of Dojo and running it with an earlier version of the library. Not something I would recommend but it worked. Also, the transitions were not smooth.
Slideshow2
Available at http://www.electricprism.com/aeron/slideshow/
This software is built on Mootools v1.2. I wasn't able to get this software to work on the Wii.
Simple Controls Gallery
Available at http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamicindex4/simplegallery.htm
This software appears to work but I didn't spend too much time with it.
After testing these applications I moved on to see what I could do from a flash perspective.
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