Reel is a jQuery plugin which takes an image tag and makes it a live "projection" of pre-built animation frames sequence. Its aim is to provide a 360° view of something or someplace. Great alternative to widely used Flash and Java techniques.

http://plugins.jquery.com/project/reel

• Intuitive operation. Supports mouse wheel and touch (iPads and such).
• NEW Animated rotation and inertial motion.
• NEW Modes covering beyond usual 360° span.
• NEW Very iPhoneOS-friendly. Excellent on iPad!
• Plays fair with your existing CSS.
• Browser and operating system agnostic. It's your choice.
• No browser extensions needed. No Flash, nothing. It's just an image...
• NEW Even more transparent, eventful & well-tested tiny code base.
• Emerging tools for Drupal, Dreamweaver, Poser or Python by the community!

View a demonstration on plugin home page.

The syntax is pretty straightforward. The plugin exposes just one method:

.reel([options])

and one set of default values for all the options:

$.reel.def

For list of options head to plugin on-line reference page.

• jQuery 1.4.2 or higher
• Optionaly you can also include these handy jQuery plugins (recommended)
  • jQuery.mouseWheel will enable mouse wheel interaction
  • or jQuery.event.special.wheel is a nice alternative
  • jQuery.disableTextSelect will retain mouse dragging interaction when saving the image is enabled

• Available for use in all personal or commercial projects under both MIT and GPL licenses.

• Open source (~ 34,6 kB)
• or minified version (~ 11,7 kB)

• Bundled with plugins & minified (~ 5,9 kB; gzipped)
• or just minified (~ 5,2 kB; gzipped)
• or open source for development (~ 9,9 kB; gzipped)

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