Introduction
ImageFlow is a picture gallery, which allows an intuitive image
handling. The basic idea is to digitally animate the thumbing through a
physical image stack. That intuitive handling is automatically caused
by the metaphorical use of the well known process of thumbing through.
This solution is known as the Cover Flow technique, which has been developed by the artist
Andrew Coulter Enright. Now - after it has been
bought by Apple - it is used in iTunes and the file browser of Apples OSX.
The innovation of this project lies in the JavaScript implementation,
which is platform independent. ImageFlow works with every browser, that
can handle images and supports JavaScript: And that is something almost
100% of all conventional graphical browsers can do.
You can trace the single developement steps in the
Newsblog-Entries to ImageFlow. Parallel to this documentation exists an official project page:
http://imageflow.finnrudolph.de.
Features
- Compatible with all graphical browsers
- Supports all image formats
- Supports big amounts of images (>100)
- Dynamic reflections (server sided via PHP)
- 100% JavaScript (but the reflections)
- Scrollbar
- Mouse wheel support
- Arrow-key support
- Loading bar
- Captions
- Supports image linkss
- Scales 100% dynamically
- Implementation by div Tags
Browser Compatibility
In the abstract the minimum system requirements for ImageFlow is a
graphical browser with JavaScript support. Since version 0.8 ImageFlow
is compatible with all conventional browsers. If you have test results
for other and/or older browsers, please let me know. ImageFlow has been
successfully tested with the following browsers in Linux, OSX and
Windows:
Ajax Image Galleries 
