Finn Rudolph

ImageFlow, JavaScript von Finn Rudolph

There is a new ImageFlow version! And with it comes good and bad news. The good news first: It is now fully compatible with the Microsoft Internet Explorer (there were some odd image scaling problems with the IE 6). The bad news is, that you now have to add the width and height attributes to the image tags. If you don't do it all browser fall back nicely to the previous method (grabbing the image dimensions via JavaScript)... and the IE will still fail. I tried a whole lot of other things to avoid this, but (as far as I know) the Internet Explorer has a massive problem getting the correct image size directly via JavaScript.

When I implemented these changes I came up with the idea, that one can even skip the image preloading, for the JavaScript can already grab the image dimensions before the images are actually loaded. This is now an option called preloadImages and should be nice for really large amounts of images.

ImageFlow, JavaScript von Finn Rudolph

Finally there is a brand new release of ImageFlow. This one is a big thing, not only because it breaks the magic 1.0 versioning number, it also is finally object-oriented! That means you can call many instances of it on a single website! Therefore I needed to rewrite ImageFlow from scratch, which then was followed by heavy testing und debugging - most of the time for the InternetExplorer. But as a final result it is now even compatible with the IE 5.5 ;D

Writing the code and making it cross browser compatible was the one thing. The other thing is making everybody understand how to use this code gem. So I wrote a Documentation, Installation Guide, updated the FAQ and made a nice Examples site.

ImageFlow is now licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 Unported License. This means you need the author's permission to use ImageFlow on commercial websites. Check the Download Section for further information.

This is also the place I want to give a special thanks to all the people, that gave me a nice feedback and especially those who found bugs and even suggested possible workarounds. Thank you!

Dragonfly von Finn Rudolph

I moved Dragonfly (this website) to a new server from the nice webhosting-provider ALL-INKL.COM and refactored a bunch of sourcecode behind it. I also added clean URLs - thank you mod_rewrite ;D

There are still some thing missing, but I couldn't wait to get it online. Another nice feature of the 'refurbished' Dragonfly is the search function in the upper right corner. Enjoy ;D