CrossSlide

2 Jul
2010

CrossSlide is a jQuery plugin implementing some common slide-show animations, traditionally only available via Adobe Flash or other proprietary plugins. CrossSlide builds upon jQuerys animation facility, so it is as portable across browsers as jQuery itself that is, a lot. Internally CrossSlide does not rely on lookup tables, building instead a chain of functions. Each function starts a linear phase of the animation through jQuery, setting the next function in the chain as a complete callback. After all the functions are prepared and the animation is started, no other calculations are made. This setup reduces runtime overhead to the absolute minimum, making CrossSlide the most optimized implementation of these effects. CrossSlide can create a few different effects, depending on how its called.