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Extension Key: dam_liteshow
Copyright 2007, Benjamin Mack - xnos Internet Services, <www.xnos.org>
This document is published under the Open Content License
available from http://www.opencontent.org/opl.shtml
The content of this document is related to TYPO3
- a GNU/GPL CMS/Framework available from www.typo3.com
This extension is a frontend plugin to display images with the Liteshow JavaScript application. It takes images in, bundled in DAM categories as galleries and renders them as a JavaScript Slideshow with nice effects. There is also a fall back for statically seeing the thumbnails (and bigger image size via the click-enlarge option) if JavaScript is disabled.
The “DAM Liteshow Gallery” extension is built on top of Liteshow 1.0 beta2, which is available at www.xnos.org.
Liteshow is an open-source JavaScript framework to render Slideshows in a different way than a simple photo gallery people know from the web. It is built on top of the prototype JavaScript library (www.prototypejs.org) and the effects part of script.aculo.us (http://script.aculo.us/), a library to render the images. It includes the following key features:
Images are cached and loaded before a user clicks on them so they don't have to wait as long as with a normal image gallery on the web.
It is extensible. JavaScript programmers can add different views very easy to define how they want to display the images – with using the script.aculo.us functions it should be pretty straightforward.
Features for displaying a timed Slideshow and bookmarking a specific image during a Slideshow are already built-in.
Navigation through the images is also possible via the arrow keys of the users' keyboard.
“DAM Liteshow” requires TYPO3 4.0 or later.
Since the extension builds on top of Media (DAM) and its categories functions, it requires “dam” and “dam_catedit”.
Also the default configuration for the DAM Liteshow is to use css_styled_content, so it is recommended to use this for rendering the content.
The development and first release of this extension was sponsored by the two German companies mediabar GbR (www.mediabar.info) and xnos Internet Services (www.xnos.de).
You may sponsor further development of this extension by contacting the author of this document.
