Image orientation changes

[jibbajibba]

Hi,

I have written a page that recreates a tarot card reading using drag
and drop. It's all well and good but one last thing is bothering me.
In a Celtic cross tarot card reading there is a card that crosses the
signifer. What this means in web page terms is that I need to be able
to display an image at a different orientation. Rather than have the
image top pointing upwards I need the top of the image to point left.
Now as this image can be any one of the cards in the deck I don't want
to recreate each of them as a different version with the correct
orientation I want to use the same image but adjust the orientation on
the page.

Ideally I would also like to use some sort of drag animation for the
card back when I deal (drag) a card onto this position (currently I
use an alternate image with the card back rotated 90 degrees)

Anyone seen anything that can achieve this ?

Thanks in advance

 

[Jonathan N. Little]

Hi,

I have written a page that recreates a tarot card reading using drag
and drop. It's all well and good but one last thing is bothering me.
In a Celtic cross tarot card reading there is a card that crosses the
signifer. What this means in web page terms is that I need to be able
to display an image at a different orientation. Rather than have the
image top pointing upwards I need the top of the image to point left.
Now as this image can be any one of the cards in the deck I don't want
to recreate each of them as a different version with the correct
orientation I want to use the same image but adjust the orientation on
the page.

Ideally I would also like to use some sort of drag animation for the
card back when I deal (drag) a card onto this position (currently I
use an alternate image with the card back rotated 90 degrees)

Anyone seen anything that can achieve this ?

Not in HTML, use flash...

 

[Travis Newbury]

Not in HTML, use flash...

I'm sitting in hell and suddenly it starts snowing... ;-)

 

[Neredbojias]

Well bust mah britches and call me cheeky, on Wed, 29 Aug 2007 20:46:11 GMT
Travis Newbury scribed:

I'm sitting in hell and suddenly it starts snowing... ;-)

I think he was bit by a rabid Ibizan.

 

[Jonathan N. Little]

I'm sitting in hell and suddenly it starts snowing... ;-)

I'm not against flash all together--what OP wants is some fancy
animation which flash is far better suited than HTML+JavaScript. Use
flash. What I object to is flash used to make a general site where HTML
is better suited.

 

[jibbajibba]

Thanks for the help guys. I don't want to use FLASH (it's a bit of
overkill just to rotate one image) but I have found a php snippet that
might work or apparently for IE only there is a rotate property on the
BasicImage object so I might be able to compromise and allow the IE
guys to see the whole thing and everyone else to see a slightly
different screen (if the php doesn;t work)

Thanks for your help though.

 

[Travis Newbury]

I'm not against flash all together...

I just get all excited when someone other than myself says something
like that.

 

[Jukka K. Korpela]

Scripsit Travis Newbury:

I just get all excited when someone other than myself says something
like that.

They don't mean it - they just say so to get you excited, and then...

 

[Travis Newbury]

They don't mean it - they just say so to get you excited, and then...

Damn, just like my wife...

 

[Jukka K. Korpela]

Scripsit Travis Newbury:

Damn, just like my wife...

Wife? Since when are alt.html'ers allowed to have a wife? Or life?

PS: Travis, email to your address bounces back.

 

[Jonathan N. Little]

Thanks for the help guys. I don't want to use FLASH (it's a bit of
overkill just to rotate one image) but I have found a php snippet that
might work or apparently for IE only there is a rotate property on the
BasicImage object so I might be able to compromise and allow the IE
guys to see the whole thing and everyone else to see a slightly
different screen (if the php doesn;t work)

BasicImage object????? HTML????

 

[dorayme]

Well bust mah britches and call me cheeky, on Wed, 29 Aug 2007 20:46:11 GMT
Travis Newbury scribed:


I think he was bit by a rabid Ibizan.

Here we go again! Flash is mentioned and _the big point_ will
come up of course: Use Flash where appropriate and not when not
appropriate. Travis even claps the use of this moronic truism.
Poor Jonathan, making initially a perfectly good point, is drawn
into a little merry go around not of his making. You Boji just
blunder in not realising the seriousness of the mess we are in.

(Richard.... piss off).

 

[Neredbojias]

Well bust mah britches and call me cheeky, on Fri, 31 Aug 2007 04:28:04
GMT dorayme scribed:

Here we go again! Flash is mentioned and _the big point_ will
come up of course: Use Flash where appropriate and not when not
appropriate. Travis even claps the use of this moronic truism.
Poor Jonathan, making initially a perfectly good point, is drawn
into a little merry go around not of his making. You Boji just
blunder in not realising the seriousness of the mess we are in.

(Richard.... piss off).

Actually, I think "Poor Jonathan" is as screwy as you. But it matters
little outside of newsgroupland. (Get it? -little/Little) In the scope of
a realistic world, the only time the big point truly comes up is when I
contemplate a whisker biscuit.

 

[Travis Newbury]

Here we go again! Flash is mentioned and _the big point_ will
come up of course: Use Flash where appropriate and not when not
appropriate. Travis even claps the use of this moronic truism.

And dorayme will bitch about it in the usual "i'm pms'ing again"
fashion...

 

[dorayme]

And dorayme will bitch about it in the usual "i'm pms'ing again"
fashion...

Is it my fault that this never comes at a monthly mid cycle point?