malsup / cycle

Looks like all of the docs pages suggested in the wiki are throwing 403 errors. It's possible to get the old docs from Google's cache, but would it be possible to either add them to the wiki or get those pages back up?

Just another idea I had lately: When dealing with more than one instance on the same page (maybe even all inside some ".slideshow" ;), it would be quite cool to chose the slideshow itself as trigger for the "next"/"prev" options instead of some element (because this is some kind of confusing when every .slideshow has a .next…).

Even more cool would be of course support for some syntax like "this ~ .next" (.next in the same div as the slideshow itself), this would make 1000 cycles on one page work like a charm. :)

I'm currently dealing with some… well, non-slideshow use for your slideshow plugin and I want cycle to go just one slide further after the user clicked somewhere.

My solution is counting objects and using the slide number (and it works), but I'm pretty sure "next" and "prev" commands in cycle itself would be quite useful.

Doing setTimeout (or setInterval) based animation tends to get laptops at rather high CPU usage so fans go on for their duty cycle on http://www.malsup.com/jquery/cycle/, or even for a basic fade $('#movie').cycle(); like at http://mashlogic.com/.>

Have you considered doing the animations in SMIL (http://www.w3.org/TR/SMIL2/ -- an open standard backed by the W3C, widely supported and implemented in all the major modern browsers)? That shoves the resource critical loop out of javascript space, where it doesn't boost CPU usage.

(The Fade example at the end of http://u.nu/86u8 exemplifies the difference between declarative animation and imperative code, where that page isn't measurably cpu bound, or at least not on the same order of magnitude as jQuery Cycle is.)