CrossSlide, slideshow animation JQuery Plugin

CrossSlide is a jQuery plugin that implements in Javascript some common slide-show animations, traditionally only available to the web developer via Adobe Flashâ„¢ or other proprietary plugins. CrossSlide builds upon jQuery’s animation facility, so it is as portable across browsers as jQuery itself (a lot.)

Performance

This kind of effect relies on the browser for positioning, scaling and cropping images, through CSS and the DOM. Thus it depends heavily on how the browser and the underlying graphics platform optimize these operations. Compared to native implementations of the same effects, CrossSlide is quite CPU-intensive, but recent hardware handles a moderate usage without problems. A few combinations of browsers and platform seem to be less optimized than others, namely Firefox on Mac OS X and Linux. Every other combination I’ve tested shows decent performance: Firefox on Windows; Internet Explorer, Safari, and Opera. You can take a look at example website using this plugin here.

Demo: http://www.gruppo4.com/~tobia/cross-slide.shtml
License: GPL