ASP.NET Slideshow Control with jQuery and XML: ASP Alliance

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by Bryian Tan
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If you are not sure of the relative path to the images or XML file, I would suggest using absolute links. Please keep in mind that the links to the XML files have to be in the same domain, no cross-domain calls. Also, try not to place all the images information in one XML file for multiple slide-shows controls. Imagine, if we have a XML file of 50KB in size, 10 slide-shows control on the page and each of them consume the identical XML source. It will cost us 500KB bandwidths and degrade the loading speed. I hope someone will find this tutorial useful and share some thoughts with me on how to make it better.

Tested on IE 6.0/7.0/8.0, Google Chrome and Firefox 3.0.13.

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Title: asp
Name: jek
Date: 2011-08-26 11:30:53 AM
Comment:
not enough

Title: User Experience
Name: Steve
Date: 2010-01-12 11:32:45 AM
Comment:
From a UX perspective, this control has a few issues. First, one has no idea that they can hover over the image to control anything... it's mystery navigation. Granted, the slide in and out looks nice, but there should probably be some sort of indication that the user is able to do things other than watch the images fly by. Second, the tooltip that pops up after hovering over the image doesn't really describe much. This may simply be just a function of the fact that this is a demo, but in production use, the tooltip should probably indicate exactly where the user will be whisked off to after they click.

Just a few thoughts. Otherwise, great tute, and terrific of you to take the time to author this.

Title: The wrong Sample!
Name: Wagi
Date: 2010-01-12 9:11:56 AM
Comment:
Hey, nice Tutorial but it is the wrong Download Sample!

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