Christian Heilmann

Friday baffler: the scriptless slide show

Friday, September 21st, 2007 at 2:43 pm

As you may know, I have this thing for slideshows and how to make them as unobtrusive as possible. Now, I just found some code by Adriaan Bouman in an exercise. It does the following:

There is no JavaScript involved and yet it is a slide show that works the way you think it should. I liked the sneakiness of it, but do not necessarily agree with the markup. However, you can take this idea and scatter images over the document and position them absolutely to create the same effect.

[tags]css,trick,slideshow[/tags]

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