Any plans to use smoothgallery 2.1?

[challenger]

Looking at JonDesign's changelog: http://smoothgallery.jondesign.net/whats-new/changelog/.

I see this latest version includes plugin support for digitarald's ReMooz.... ReMooz might be something of interest for people who had been using lightbox.

Any plans to upgrade to 2.1? Any particular reason it has not already been done? Any reason I should NOT overwrite the mootools and smoothgallery js distributed with this plugin in favor of using mootools 1.2.1 and smoothgallery 2.1 distributed on JonDesign's download page: http://smoothgallery.jondesign.net/download/ ?

Thanks in advance.

[Kris Themstrup]

We do plan to upgrade to the new SmoothGallery version, I've been aware of 2.1. We wanted to get in the plugin repository first and fix some other things, but it's high on our list. There's no reason why you can't overwrite and upgrade yourself, if you'd like. Let me know how it goes, and thanks for the heads up!

[annfield]

Dear iePlexus and FCG-team,
Thank you for your contribution to the Wordpress community, your plugin is excellent.

I have repackaged and updated the plugin to use JonDesign's Smooth Gallery V2.1 (MooTools 1.2.1) as well as the following changes:
* Google´s JS repocitory API is used load the MooTool 1.21 core
* All jd.gallery-CSS is included in jd.gallery.css.php to avoid loading multiple CSS files.

Note: The files needed to be separated due to forum upload size restrictions.

[Kris Themstrup]

I want to address this download from an official standpoint, so please read this before downloading any alternate version of Featured Content Gallery.

We certainly appreciate the contribution to the community and the addition of the new SmoothGallery script to the plugin. However, because we have not put this package download together, have not tested it in any way, and have not completed research on the effects of the new files, we cannot support this version of the plugin in any way. If you download and use this file, you are doing so at your own risk and we cannot provide support for this download.

We are in the process of researching the advantages to upgrading to the newer version of SmoothGallery, and community input is certainly welcome. Again, we do not endorse this download and will not provide support for an untested package version of Featured Content Gallery. We recommend sticking with the official version (3.2.0) which has been tested and proven stable. Thanks.

[ryan]

Thanks for creating a new version.

Dear iePlexus and FCG-team,
* Google´s JS repocitory API is used load the MooTool 1.21 core

Does that mean it uses a script hosted with Google instead of one included with WordPress core or in the plugin itself? If so, I'm not sure adding that functionality as a core feature would be a good idea for the official plugin. Many users won't want to rely on an external service to provide their scripts.

I know of some plugin developers who are, or are considering, adding Google hosted scripts as an option in the admin panel. However personally I think it would be a better idea to write a separate plugin which overrides the enqueue scripts of other plugins with a Google hosted system. This way ALL plugins and the WordPress core could be forced to use external scripts with a single plugin instead of each plugin developer having to provide support for this functionality themselves.

[ryan]

A random blog post I found which outlines various reasons people may not want to use a Google hosted javascript file ... http://www.derekallard.com/blog/post/jq ... evelopers/

[annfield]

Does that mean it uses a script hosted with Google instead of one included with WordPress core or in the plugin itself? If so, I'm not sure adding that functionality as a core feature would be a good idea for the official plugin. Many users won't want to rely on an external service to provide their scripts.

Dear Ryan,
The script loaded by Google AJAX Libraries API is the MooTool core javascript framework and not a script belonging to Wordpress or Featured Content Gallery.

Some may argue that there is a performance gain in loading this script from google instead of your own web server.
Looking back on the previously attached code I can see that Google AJAX Libraries API was not called in the xhtml header code. Instead the MooTool core script included in the plugin itself is used.
If you do want to use google you can do the following change in content-gallery.php (line41):

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$galleryscript = "
<!-- begin gallery scripts -->
<link rel=\"stylesheet\" href=\"".$gallery_path."css/jd.gallery.css.php\" type=\"text/css\" media=\"screen\" charset=\"utf-8\"/>
<script type=\"text/javascript\" src=\"".$gallery_path."scripts/mootools-1.2.1-core-yc.js\"></script>
<script type=\"text/javascript\" src=\"".$gallery_path."scripts/mootools-1.2-more.js\"></script>
<script type=\"text/javascript\" src=\"".$gallery_path."scripts/jd.gallery.js.php\"></script>
<script type=\"text/javascript\" src=\"".$gallery_path."scripts/jd.gallery.transitions.js\"></script>
<style type=\"text/css\">
.jdGallery .slideInfoZone
{
   height:".get_option('gallery-info')."px;
}
</style>
<!-- end gallery scripts -->\n";


to:

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   $galleryscript = "
   <!-- begin gallery scripts -->
    <link rel=\"stylesheet\" href=\"".$gallery_path."css/jd.gallery.css.php\" type=\"text/css\" media=\"screen\" charset=\"utf-8\"/>
   <script type=\"text/javascript\" src=\"http://www.google.com/jsapi\"></script>
   <script type=\"text/javascript\"> google.load(\"mootools\", \"1.2.1\");</script>
   <script type=\"text/javascript\" src=\"".$gallery_path."scripts/mootools-1.2-more.js\"></script>
   <script type=\"text/javascript\" src=\"".$gallery_path."scripts/jd.gallery.js.php\"></script>
   <script type=\"text/javascript\" src=\"".$gallery_path."scripts/jd.gallery.transitions.js\"></script>
   <style type=\"text/css\">
   .jdGallery .slideInfoZone
   {
      height:".get_option('gallery-info')."px;
   }
   </style>
   <!-- end gallery scripts -->\n";


[admin]

guys we will never gonna use google libraries, since we have some changes made to mootools framework..our mootools now work with some jquery plugins..

[Wolf Larsen]

This version doesnt work for me. If i use the offical everything is ok, if i use the cracked one, i just see the white screen with black borders.

Wolf