![]() Most features can be switched on and off via user variables. If you plan on using these controls, you might like to quickly read the next section about variables just as background information. You can get more detail about the purpose of each of these options in in the reference section, but please understand that each of these controls sets a variable, and it is these variables which are documented in the reference section. ![]() For a quick explanation about what these features do, simply hover your mouse over them and a hint will appear. These allow you to customise various aspects of the skin. Once you select this tab you will see a list of options for the skin. After the skin has loaded you will see an extra tab called "ExhibitPlus" just to the right of the "Main" tab at the top left-hand corner of jAlbum. ![]() Setting optionsIt is possible to control almost all aspects of the appearance of the skin via an easy to use graphical interface. ![]() Dealing with digital photo albums on the web you’ll see two basically different models.ExhibitPlus User Interface (UI) - General tab The “traditional” – one image per HTML page – and the “dynamic”, which changes the images on the same HTML page upon user interaction, utilizing Javascript. Sounds like a subtle technical detail but it has far reaching consequences. Although this applies to any skin, I will talk specifically about the Turtle skin now, which has been enabled to generate traditional (separate slides) albums since version 4, just a few weeks ago. Here is the magic switch that decides between these modes in jAlbum, called “ Make slide pages“: I’ve seen a lot of confusion regarding these modes, so I decided to put up this blog post. Turn it on for the “Separate slide pages” mode – the default is still the dynamic mode. In the traditional – separate slide pages – mode, the HTML page loads all the page components and all the widgets (like Facebook, Google +1, etc.) every time an image is loaded. Every page has a separate URL address, so you can bookmark or share images separately and can use external widgets which rely on the page address, for example Facebook commenting. The downside is inherent in the web technology which doesn’t allow transitions between web pages, nothing can remain from a previous page (like background music), and need to build every page from ground, loading and rendering everything on a page again and again. This is why Turtle skin was originally made dynamic. #JALBUM TURTLE SKIN FULL#Ī dynamic album is capable of making smooth transitions between the images, loading only the necessary components, an rendering a full folder only once. You might ask why did then Turtle introduce the traditional mode at all. It’s because there are several scenarios when the separate slides mode is still beneficial, e.g. ![]() achieving better search results, being able to comment images through Facebook separately, using several hundreds of images in the same folder, to name a few. It’s a fundamental change in the structure, every part of the code had to be rewritten to work in both modes. Tracking the actual image in dynamic mode In most browsers it falls back to windowed mode with every page changeĬommenting widget works, the others ignore itĮvery image is rendered on a separate html page Like, Comment, +1, PinIt, Share individual imagesĬan skip index page and auto-start slideshow Like, Comment, +1, PinIt, Share complete folders The number of page elements (thumbnails) is still limited To avoid memory leak in poorly written browsers I tried to find the best match between the two modes, still there are tons of differences. To be able to follow the actual image the skin is using a technique (using internal links), which adds the image name after the URL the following way. ![]()
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