Sometimes I complain, and other times I compliment; here's one of the latter. The slide show at SlayerOffice is just waaaay cool. Here's Steve's description of how it came to be:

I was surfing around last night and wound up on Travis Beckham's podLob, an incredible site full of extremely good Flash and DHTML experiments.

As you know, I am a big fan of rewriting Flash stuff in DHTML, so naturally I was intrigued by the possibilities that Mr. Beckham's site offered for experimentation of my own.

One piece in particular that I liked very much was a Flash application he calls "Image Viewer", which you'll find linked on his site on the right side of the page, listed as #51. It shows a series of thumbnails which upon being clicked by the user expand into their full size and slide across the canvas. Pretty neat.

So I've written a similiar one in Javascript. It works in MSIE 6, MacIE 5.2, Gecko based browsers (including NS6), Konqueror and Safari.

Opera, both Windows v7.2 and Mac v7.5, seem to be incapable of resizing images on the fly, so it doesnt work for that browser, though it does degrade quite nicely for Netscape 4. If I'm just missing something with the Opera thing, let me know.

In Firefox/Mac, I had to click Disable Opacity Transition, but besides that it worked fine. Check it out.