iCarousel – Free Open source JavaScript based Horizontal images slider

iCarousel is an open source (free) javascript tool for creating carousel like widgets.

One of the most common problems a web developer usually face is related to continuously rotate a fragment of content. It can be a presentation of headlines, small fragments of news or a list of thumbnails. The nature of the thing being rotated doesn’t matter too much here because all those kind of applications share always the same idea: Rotating.

This objective can be achieve in different ways like fading and scrolling. Well here is iCarousel becomes useful. It’s a one step forward trying to generalize all those types of widgets providing a rich presentation and making the task easy to be done.

features:

iCarousel is fully configurable. You can change any default option just initializating the class with an object in JSON. The following options are available:

• (object) animation
  • (string) type (default “fadeNscroll”, values: [“fadeNscroll”, “scroll”, “fade”]).
  • (string) direction (default “left”, values: [“top”, “left”]) – required only by “scroll” type.
  • (int) amount (default 1) – The amount of items to scroll :: required only by “scroll” type.
  • (function) transition (default Fx.Transition.Cubic.easeInOut).
  • (int) duration (default 500)
  • (object) rotate
    • (string) type (default “manual”, values: [“manual”, “auto”]).
    • (int) interval (default 5000 ms) – required only by “auto” type.
    • (string) onMouseOver (default “stop”, values: [“stop”, “proceed”]) – required only by “auto” type.
• (object) item
  • (string) klass (default “item”)
  • (int) size (default 100) – The relevant size of item :: required only by “scroll” type.
• (string) idPrevious (default “previous”)
• (string) idNext (default “next”)
• (string) idToggle (default “toggle”)

Full Article Link: http://zendold.lojcomm.com.br/icarousel/example6.asp