jQuery Image Viewer Plugins

Today, I played with a couple of new (to me) jQuery image viewer plugins: the JQuery Cycle Plugin and  YoxView.  They both show a lot of promise, for very different reasons.

First, the JQuery Cycle Plugin works great as a light-weight (as little as 4Kb) image rotator. It cycles through a set of images defined in your html (defining the images in the html means they’re preloaded and ready to cycle – which means no waiting for the images to load as they cycle).  I have an example of a simple image rotator here: www.protectedlands.net

YoxView is similar to a lot of Lightbox-inspired slideshow plugins. However, in addition to having a nice out-of-the-box style and supporting both Flickr and Picasa albums, it also supports video and allows for keyboard access. (!!)  I don’t have any examples yet, but it looks like there is a YoxView plugin available for WordPress, so I may add that in, soon.

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