Extension:JavascriptSlideshow

This extension creates a slideshow which can:
 * Create a "rotating" slideshow (i.e. one that changes from one picture to another)
 * Create stop-action animation from multiple images or multiple pieces of text

Options / attributes

 * id: The id to be given to the div containing the content. This allows you to pre-specify the id for styling purposes.  If none is specified, the id will be a randomly generated number starting with 'slideshow_' (e.g. slideshow_12345).
 * refresh: The time, in milliseconds, between transitions. The default is 1000 milliseconds (one second).
 * sequence: The sequence in which to display the content.  Must be one of the following values:
 * random: This is the default.
 * forward
 * backward


 * transition: How to transition (change) between content.  Must be one of the following values:
 * cut: A straight cut from the current content to the new content. This is the default.
 * fade: A one-second fade between the current content and the new content.
 * blindDown: The new content "rolls down" over the exising content.

Tag
 This results in a div (with a randomly generated id) that randomly changed every 10 seconds between the three images specified (which happen to be wiki images).

Parser Function
would result in a div (with an id of bar) that changed every second between the words Tick and Tock.

Installation
 .slideshow div { _position: absolute; }
 * 1) Create a folder called Slideshow in your extensions folder
 * 2) Download the following files into your Slideshow directory (Copy/paste text) or alternatively from https://github.com/DaSchTour/JavascriptSlideshow
 * 3) slideshow.php
 * 4) slideshow.js
 * 5) If embedded images are going to be used, and you want them to show up correctly in Internet Explorer, you'll need to add the following to Mediawiki:Common.css:

.slideshow div div { _position: static; }


 * This is because there is a bug in Internet Explorer, where if a div line has an image, the div will be expanded (height and width) to contain the image.

Revision history

 * 0.4 (01/29/2013):Reworked Version, now at github – Download
 * 0.3 (03/25/2012):Support added for MediaWiki 1.17 and higher, removed for versions of MediaWiki below 1.17; use of Scriptaculous replaced with jQuery
 * 0.2.1 (09/15/2008):More changes to the way that the divs are displayed, and added a spacer div (since the main div is now positioned absolutely in order to deal with IEs CSS failings).
 * 0.2.0 (09/02/2008):Modified the way that the embedded divs are displayed to allow more control over styling
 * 0.1.0 (07/30/2008):Initial release, marked beta.

Sites using this extension
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