Reel is a jQuery plugin which takes an image tag and makes it a live "projection" of pre-built animation frames sequence. Its aim is to provide a 360° view of something or someplace. Great alternative to widely used Flash and Java techniques.
http://plugins.jquery.com/project/reel
- Intuitive operation. Supports mouse wheel and touch (iPads and such).
- NEW Animated rotation and inertial motion.
- NEW Modes covering beyond usual 360° span.
- NEW Very iPhoneOS-friendly. Excellent on iPad!
- Plays fair with your existing CSS.
- Browser and operating system agnostic. It's your choice.
- No browser extensions needed. No Flash, nothing. It's just an image...
- NEW Even more transparent, eventful & well-tested tiny code base.
- Emerging tools for Drupal, Dreamweaver, Poser or Python by the community!
View a demonstration on plugin home page.
The syntax is pretty straightforward. The plugin exposes just one method:
.reel([options])
and one set of default values for all the options:
$.reel.def
For list of options head to plugin on-line reference page.
- jQuery 1.4.2 or higher
- Optionaly you can also include these handy jQuery plugins (recommended)
- jQuery.mouseWheel will enable mouse wheel interaction
- or jQuery.event.special.wheel is a nice alternative
- jQuery.disableTextSelect will retain mouse dragging interaction when saving the image is enabled
- Open source (~ 34,6 kB)
- or minified version (~ 11,7 kB)
Use Reel's cloud CDN (1.1.2)
- Bundled with plugins & minified (~ 5,9 kB; gzipped)
- or just minified (~ 5,2 kB; gzipped)
- or open source for development (~ 9,9 kB; gzipped)