how can i cycle pictures in html

[Els]

Mozilla has that option too -

Eh... I _was_ talking about Mozilla (Firefox)

you can set it to either just do that for
links, or for any text.

That, I didn't know. I guess the default is the setting for
just links then.

Learning something new every day

 

[Chris Morris]

On 5 Apr 2004 20:33:04 -0700, (e-mail address removed) (Justin Culver)

You can't. HTML doesn't _do_ anything. It describes the structure of the
content.

http://www.dur.ac.uk/c.i.morris/testimg.php

Okay, it doesn't work in IE (tested in Opera 7/Mozilla), and 'control'
over cycling relies on having a very steady hand, but it does degrade
gracefully if CSS isn't enabled.

http://www.dur.ac.uk/c.i.morris/testimg.php?offset=10
for something only marginally less useless, but at least giving a
little more control over transition speed.

Both need a mouse, but it might be possible to make :focus work as
well as :hover with a bit more work.

 

[Mark Parnell]

Eh... I _was_ talking about Mozilla (Firefox)

Oh. The discussion at the time was about Lynx. Damn these twists and
turns of Usenet threads!

That, I didn't know. I guess the default is the setting for
just links then.

From memory, yes.

 

[Mark Parnell]

http://www.dur.ac.uk/c.i.morris/testimg.php

Uses PHP, not just HTML, which is what the OP was asking for.

BTW: Did you see brucie's solution? Very nice.
http://slide.bruciesusenetshit.info/

 

[Toby A Inkster]

Newsgroups: alt.html



Uses PHP, not just HTML, which is what the OP was asking for.

BTW: Did you see brucie's solution? Very nice.
http://slide.bruciesusenetshit.info/

Which also uses PHP...

Either way, doesn't really matter that it uses PHP. PHP is just for
convenience here -- the same thing could be done with no server-side
scripting.

 

[Mark Parnell]

Which also uses PHP...

I know. I was pointing out that it can't be done with just HTML. I
mentioned brucie's as an aside, not as a pure HTML solution.

Either way, doesn't really matter that it uses PHP. PHP is just for
convenience here -- the same thing could be done with no server-side
scripting.

Yes, it could be done client-side if that's what you mean (with the
usual caveats of course). But I still maintain it can't be done with
just HTML. Feel free to prove me wrong.

 

[Chris Morris]

Uses PHP, not just HTML, which is what the OP was asking for.

The PHP is just to save me some time typing when generating the page.
http://www.dur.ac.uk/c.i.morris/testimg.html then.

(I do have a PHP based 'solution' that gets the timing 'right' and
'works' in IE too, at least if no caches or proxies get in the way and
the user agent is feeling sympathetic, involving lots of sleep()
calls)

BTW: Did you see brucie's solution? Very nice.
http://slide.bruciesusenetshit.info/

Yes, I liked that one.

 

[Mark Parnell]

http://www.dur.ac.uk/c.i.morris/testimg.html then.

Impressive. But as you say, unfortunately not very practical.

 

[Chris Morris]

Impressive. But as you say, unfortunately not very practical.

Okay, how about http://www.dur.ac.uk/c.i.morris/examples/object.html -
a HTML only (there's a little bit of CSS to make it look nicer)
slideshow with graceful fallback and author-set timings.

It can be done, no matter how much it shouldn't.

Just tested in IE and got the message 'Your current security settings
prevent the running of ActiveX objects on this page, it may not
display as intended'. When I told IE to trust the pages it didn't do
the meta refresh 'correctly' but did change it on 'Next' (and then got
stuck there)

Works in Opera and Mozilla.

 

[Mark Parnell]

Okay, how about http://www.dur.ac.uk/c.i.morris/examples/object.html -
a HTML only (there's a little bit of CSS to make it look nicer)
slideshow with graceful fallback and author-set timings.

Not bad.

Unfortunate that it requires <object> support - that's why it doesn't
work in IE.

Anyway, as you say, doesn't look to ever be a good idea, though I still
think brucie's solution has potential. But of course, then we get back
to using something beyond HTML.