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(496 replies, posted in Juicebox-Pro Support)

Since building my new site with Juicebox at its core, I have had some comments that it is a shame viewers cannot control the speed of the slideshows.  They'd like to slow them down, which I take as a great compliment, but I also know how impatient people are these days ...

So new feature request :

Slider, or plus/minus buttons in the Button Bar for slideshow speed.

Thanks Steven.  I've come to the conclusion that this is indeed bug in Safari/MacOS.  Hopefully Apple will do the right thing. :)

Thanks Steven.

I have made a test gallery with just one page and with *nothing* on the page other than the Juicebox gallery.  I am still seeing this stutter, but am also still seeing errors in the Juicebox code.

I've made the code more readable.  Perhaps you could have a look?

http://www.grantsymon.com/testBugs/index.html

I don't see the problem with your test page galleries, which makes me wonder if it is something to do with the version 1.4 responsive galleries and the associated image sizes, or possibly, the choice of images.

(Of course, it could well be a bug with Safari and I have reported it to the Appleseed program, so I'll see what they say.)

Steven,

I've just started using slideshows on load and I'm having this exact problem.  I'm running MacOS 10.10 and Safari 8.

I'm not seeing the problem with Chrome on this same Mac, but am having the same issue on another Mac running 10.10.  However, I'm not seeing it with yet another running 10.9.

Can you confirm if possible, that this is NOT a Juicebox issue?

Using W3C validation service throws up a LOT of errors with my code ... most of which seem to be in Juicebox's embed code.  I don't really understand what I'm looking at here, so any help you can offer will be most welcome.

(This site is still in test phase, so may be changing but the galleries are now pretty much set ... http://www.grantsymon.com/test/e/start.html)

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(5 replies, posted in Juicebox-Pro Support)

Thanks Steven.  I have the thumbs set accordingly, but they don't extend very far down the stage.  Ho hum.

I made a quick screen-movie-grab to show the issue with the non-functioning thumbs (which do extend!) and I uploaded a test gallery for you to look at.

http://www.grantsymon.com/Grabs/JBx-thumbBug.mov

http://test-1.grantsymon.com/JBx-thumbBug/index.html

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(496 replies, posted in Juicebox-Pro Support)

More control of font handling and placement/position for caption/titles/numbers etc.

The standard font positions are quite intrusive into the image area, which whilst it may suit some galleries, it doesn't suit them all.

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(5 replies, posted in Juicebox-Pro Support)

Thanks Steven!  Code for shifting the caption / numbers down works brilliantly.  (I shall add a feature request for more control over font/captions, as searching the forum for answers showed that there is a fair demand).

For the thumbs, I was meaning if there was a way to increase the number of *visible* thumbnails with regard to the percentage area of the page.

I have them set to left/left/top.  I found that if I set them to top/left/top, then they extend down the page, but as a result the main image is no longer displayed when I click or mouse-over the thumbnails, so in effect, the page is broken. (I guess this is a bug).

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(5 replies, posted in Juicebox-Pro Support)

I would like to lower the vertical position of the caption and page number.  (I'd also like them to be level!)

I'm using some CSS already for the font, so I know that is working.  Any help would be much appreciated. :)

This is a screen-grab of how I would like to alter the caption position.

http://www.grantsymon.com/Grabs/JBx-Format.png

As you'll see in the grab, I also circle the bottom of the thumbs.  Is there a way to have the thumbs extend lower?

Thanks Steven.

Is this how it should be?  I just re-downloaded Juicebox 1.4.2 and it comes with theme 1.4.1

I noticed Steven mentioning theme 1.4.2 in another thread and that it's important that the theme version matches the Juicebox version.

Thanks Steven.

Thanks Steven.

What I would like to do may not be possible, but perhaps you could help me further.

As mentioned I have 2 sub-domains for my mobile site (French and English). Both serve the same JuiceBox galleries via an iFrame (so I don't have to produce them twice).  Both sub-domains have a language choice page as the index page, which seems logical to me (though obviously not essential)

I'd like the back button to go back to the first level of the domain that's being used to view the galleries ... however ... my galleries are not embedded, they're in an iFrame.

Absolute paths obviously don't work.  The default 'back one level' does work, but only if people visit the index, or menu pages first (so not if someone sends them a direct link to a specific gallery).

Is there a way to have the back button go to a relative URL, which would be, for example : /e/   
and which would work for both sub-domains (mobilef.grantsymon.com + mobile.grantsymon.com)?

I have been thinking about building a new responsive site to cater to desktop/mobile, in order to simplify things and using embedding instead of iFrames, so if this would resolve the issue ... even though I've not managed to get embedding working from remote directories ... then I'd be happy to go this route).

Hi Steven,

I'd already found it!!  :) :)

I've updated my site, so your developers won't see it any more.

I just had to change the Back Button HAlign to 'Left'

http://www.grantsymon.com/Grabs/JuiceBoxHomeBug.png

(One extra question concerning the Back Button ... if I load a page/gallery directly, without going to the Home page first, then the BackButton doesn't do anything.  I have it set to blank/empty/nothing in it.  Is there any way to have it always go back one level?  (I have my site in two languages on two sub-domains, so I don't want to go to the start page, which is a language selection page).

Hi Steven,

thanks for the reply.  I'm currently learning a lot about building websites and will probably soon be re-working the Desktop site to remove the iFrame and ancient code.

However ...

I should have been more precise.  There is a re-direct on the Desktop site, so I'm guessing you didn't see the mobile site?

It is not in in an iFrame, it just runs straight, un-embedded, Juicebox.  There's a Home Page, but once you click a link, it's pure Juicebox.

mobile.grantsymon.com

If you open the site in a Desktop browser, you'll see that the gallery is not res-sizing when you re-size the window.  The button-bar buttons are not working either and the initial image isn't loading.  There's clearly something wrong, but I'm not sure what is the best way to fix it.  Is image size an issue?

Oops! forgot to include my site address : grantsymon.com

My site is not loading correctly on my iPad.  It's okay on my iPhone where it uses the small-screen layout and on my Mac, but pages are not filling the screen properly on iPad and rotating leaves it in a bit of a mess.  I suspect this may have to do with image sizes ... but maybe not.

Also ... when the galleries load on iPad, the first image doesn't load.  Just a black screen.

Any suggestions?

I've just come across this problem.

THIS IS REALLY SERIOUS!!!!

What is the point of an app to create beautiful web galleries, when it diminishes the images you're showing??

FWIW, When Juicebox was first introduced, I didn't buy it, because it didn't support basic metadata tags.  This was really bad.  Our work should never be anonymous.  It's thoughtless programming.  When it supported metadata, I bought it.  Now I find I'm back to square one.  Where's the progress?

An imaging app, any imaging app, should never take it upon itself to strip any kind of metadata, especially colour and owner information.

Please make this BUG an absolute priority for a fix.

(Now I have to go through all the galleries I've made since 1.4, and re-make all the jpegs.  Twice! ... Hmph!)

Ahh ... okay Steven.  I'm using a MacBook Pro with an external monitor attached.

Don't you think you should be looking at the monitor dimensions instead of the device?  I could have an 11" portable with a 30" monitor.

(It makes no difference setting screenMode="LARGE")

Steven wrote:

If screenMode="AUTO", Large Screen Mode will be used only if the device is not a small-screen mobile device (for example an iPhone) and the screen width is greater than 1000px.

Hmmm.  I am set to AUTO and my screen is 1920 wide, but the galleries are not displaying the Large images *unless* I go into full-screen/expand mode.

Any ideas?

Steven,

can you tell me at what point the largest images 'kick in'?  I'm looking at a gallery on a 1920x1200 monitor.  In full-screen mode the Large images kick-in, but when viewed normally, it's the 1024x768 images that are used.

Also ... my website puts JBx in an resizable iFrame, I'm guessing it's the size of the frame that will determine the source image size?

Thanks Steven.  I hadn't clicked on the 'Change Sizes' button, so didn't see where this feature was located.

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(496 replies, posted in Juicebox-Pro Support)

Also on Thumbnails ...

Why do we have to have these pages of thumbnails?  Can't they just 'slide'.

(I know they can, because I posted a demo from some javascript geeks site the last time I requested this).

My thinking Bill, is that people don't always move around in straight lines. :)  So people go to thumbnails that are not in order.  This means that they have to wait each time for the image to load.  I have my thumbnails set to display the image on Hover, this combined with pre-load all makes for a very fluid experience ... once the initial load is done.  Also, the first page of images are there very fast and the others are fully downloaded by the time a user would navigate to the next page. 

My own feeling is that I'm happy to wait for a site to load, but once that is finished I don't want a stuttering experience.

ouiouiphoto wrote:

So after some research.

LR need to render the Gallery preview. To render this preview LR seems to use some IE component. And IE is not managing correctly color on WG monitors. Firefox or Chrome yes but IE no.

Microsoft have never really cared much about colour.  I believe that you may still have to turn colour management on in IE??

Anyway ... you won't have these issues if you play the game the MS way.  They 'expect' all images to be in sRGB.  This is a fairly standard 'conventional monitor' space, in 2.2 gamma.  If you convert all your images to sRGB prior to uploading, then you won't get any nasty surprises, on any monitor, on any Mac/PC or in any browser.

Sure, some of your images which look fantastic in AdobeRGB (or other wide gamut spaces) will not look so good in sRGB (think ... photos of carrots, or oranges) and yes, the tiny number of people surfing the net, who have a wide-gamut monitor will not enjoy your images as much ... but the others who use non-colour management aware browsers or OS's, will not get the fluorescent greens and other horrors.

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(496 replies, posted in Juicebox-Pro Support)

Was pleased in 1.4 to see a bug fix for the navigation arrows not showing when using small UI on a desktop browser.

Would still very much like to be able to 'auto-hide' thumbnails.  I'm sure it's not a big deal for you guys to code, but it would make the UI so much cleaner and display images (the whole point right?) so much better.

So my request is : auto-hide / auto-show thumbnails

Display thumbnails on page load, auto-hide them after 5-10 secs if the mouse is not hovering over them.
Auto-display thumbnails on mouse hover.