Niall Doherty just released a minor update to the powerful & sexy jQuery CodaSlider widget. The version 1.1.1 release increases the visual styling capabilities of the widget by adding more css support.
Not a major update, but the drop in nature and dramatically increased styling ability make this an obvious addition to any projects currently using the widget.
Get it at ndoherty.com:
Niall Doherty has released version 1.1 of the powerful CodaSlider AJAX widget. This upgrade takes an excellent widget and makes it even better.
Some highlights:
Check It Out on Niall’s Blog
Lightbox & CodaSlider aren’t compatible. A situation that was brought to my attention while participating in the comments on a blog post at http://www.ndoherty.com/. Conflicts like this are a common experience for many of us and I thought this was a good opportunity to explore the cause of one such conflict.
In the case of Lightbox & CodaSlider, the fundamental frameworks were at odds with each other. Lightbox is built with the Prototype / Scriptaculous framework stack, CodaSlider uses the jQuery framework. Superficially, this doesn’t seem like a big deal. While it’s usually bad form to load down a web page with multiple frameworks, I know it’s a crime many of us have been guilty of in the name of expediency or through multiple vendor integrations. Usually this works, but in this case, the developer was attempting to integrate two widgets that were instantiated at different times and by different methods.
Luckily, there’s a simple solution to the problem. I directed her towards the popular “ThickBox” widget instead. In fact, that’s the greatest strength of the Ajax Bestiary we all have at our disposal. There’s usually another tool available for us to use and in the case of popular frameworks like jQuery, a native solution is out there. So if you ever find yourself in this situation, try to find the native solution.
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