Roadmap & Changelog

Here you'll find information about the past and future of YoxView. If you have any ideas about what should be in YoxView, please send me a feature request using the contact page.


Roadmap

YoxView's main goal is to display content in as unobstrusive a manner as possible and make it easy for the viewer to view your images and videos.

What lies ahead for YoxView:

  • Speed - performance is a main issue, so I'm always looking to improve memory use and processing.
  • Add support for more external data sources, like Smugmug, Photobucket and others.
  • Add comments inside YoxView - from Picasa/Flickr and custom implementations.
  • Support for local video and Flash. Added in v2.0!
  • Better support for iPhone and iPad.
  • Make it possible to change options after initialization. Added in v2.15!
  • When the format wars are over, add HTML5 support for video and audio.
  • Your feature requests.


Change log

  • v2.21

    Released May 26th, 2011

    • Bug fix: Urgent fix for Picasa plugin - thumbnails changed into full-size images, as a result of a change in Picasa's API.

  • v2.2

    Released November 13th, 2010

    • New plugin: YouTube. YoxView can now create galleries from YouTube videos just as easily as from Picasa or Flickr! The plugin can create galleries for channels, playlists, search or single videos. Demos: simple YouTube gallery, list-style YouTube gallery.
    • New options: thumbnailsOptions. Added various options for customizing how thumbnails are rendered by YoxView, such as whether to display the title and the description inside thumbnails, classes for thumbnails and more.
    • New option: showDescription, can disable showing a description inside the viewer.
    • Documentation: Improved much of the plugins page for better usability and added more examples.

  • v2.15

    Released October 30th, 2010

    • New API method: update, updates one or more YoxView instances in the page. For example, in case your images change in response to an AJAX call, update() can be called to load the new images.
    • New API method: options, for changing YoxView's options after the viewer has been loaded. Demo
    • Optimization: The opening animation is smoother (when the viewer opens from thumbnail/text).
    • Compatibility: Keyboard presses weren't working correctly with jQuery v1.4.3/1.4.4.
    • Documentation: Added a list of all available demos to the usage page.

  • v2.11

    Released October 15th, 2010

    • Bug fix: there were problems loading flash and iframe contents. (Thanks Cyrus!)

  • v2.1

    Released October 11th, 2010

    • New feature: YoxView can now be opened from text links, not just image links! More info and Demo
    • New feature: The API has been much improved. Calls can now be made directly on thumbnails or elements using this syntax: $("#yoxviewDiv").yoxview("open"). More info
    • New API method: setDefaults, can be used to set options for all following instances of YoxView to be called.
    • Bug fix: iframes displayed with YoxView had their querystrings stripped. (Thanks Julien!)
    • Bug fix: Setting width and height for individual flash files (using ?width=[number]&height=[number] in the swf file's URL) wasn't working. (Thanks Selva!)
    • Improved: The option videoSize has been removed, and added to option defaultDimensions.video.
    • Improved: Code related to initialization has been reorganized for improved readability and performance using jQuery's Plugins/Authoring guidelines.
    • Improved/bug fix: Window onresize event handler is now namespaced, to avoid conflicts with any other onresize event handler.

  • v2.09

    Released September 11th, 2010

    • Bug fix: In IE, all window size recognition wouldn't work. (Thanks Patrick!)
    • Bug fix: An endless loop would occur when caching small galleries.
    • Improved: Aside from jQuery itself, all the plugins and objects required for YoxView are now packaged in a single minified file. This reduces the number of HTTP requests from 14 to 10 (almost 30% improvement!).
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