Introduction
ImageFlow is a picture gallery, which allows an intuitive
image handling. The basic idea is to digitally animate the
thumbing through a physical image stack. That intuitive
handling is automatically caused by the metaphorical use of
the well known process of thumbing through.
This solution is known as the Cover Flow technique, which
has been developed by the artist
Andrew Coulter Enright.
Now - after it has been
bought by Apple
- it is used in iTunes and the file browser of Apples OSX.
The innovation of this project lies in the JavaScript
implementation, which is platform independent. ImageFlow
works with every browser, that can handle images and
supports JavaScript: And that is something almost 100% of
all conventional graphical browsers can do.
You can trace the single developement steps in the
Newsblog-Entries to ImageFlow.
Parallel to this documentation exists an official project
page:
http://imageflow.finnrudolph.de
Features
- Compatible with all
graphical browsers
- Supports all image
formats
- Supports big amounts of
images (>100)
- Dynamic reflections
(server sided via PHP)
- 100% JavaScript (but
the reflections)
- Scrollbar
- Mouse wheel support
- Arrow-key support
- Loading bar
- Captions
- Supports image linkss
- Scales 100% dynamically
- Implementation by div
Tags
Browser Compatibility
In the abstract the minimum system requirements for
ImageFlow is a graphical browser with JavaScript
support. Since version 0.8 ImageFlow is compatible with
all conventional browsers. If you have test results for
other and/or older browsers, please let me know.
ImageFlow has been successfully tested with the
following browsers in Linux, OSX and Windows: