Quote Originally Posted by gcellison View Post
Very well done, @Acorn. The first one (jQuery – Messing with Slides) is particularly nice. Like @siran, your knowledge of JS opens up a lot of possibilities. Some of the effects you used are quite cool, by the way.

I noticed (at least as it comes in to WDP) that you left the Web Image Type to “Let Xara… choose”, rather than forcing PNG (Slide5) as your instructions suggest. Is that because you were confident that it would choose PNG (which it did)?

I played around a little with the design and found that (at least) to some degree, you can make the slideshow full width. (This requires removing any web animations, as they are apparently not compatible with full width in Xara. The decorative pieces that don’t occupy the full screen also go a bit screwy… so they would have to be adjusted.) That would be a great way of avoiding the Xara Slide Show that requires an external http request. (And sometimes, it is slow to show up on the page).

(If you have thought about it,) I was wondering as well if using the slide show across variants would require distinct instances, or if it would function using the same layers (obviously, with adjusted elements) and the same script?

And a last question (thanks for your patience… I try to understand all the aspects of these things): Was there a reason that you chose to put the JavaScript in the head of the placeholder rather than the body?

Again, congratulations on a great effort.
Slide5 PNG omission was probably an oversight! When you have transparencies, you need PNG. If you don't you get unintended consequences that can be entertaining but baffling. My generic answer is experiment.

I did try full width but thought that keeping it simple to start would be best and then I just had to sit back for feature requests. I will have another look-see.

The code should be in the Head of the page; I did try it in the Body but saw no difference. Normally i would not use a Widget and place it directly in the Website Head, avoiding a Placeholder. The Placeholder is just an easy way to make it visible and portable.

Acorn