Jquery Image Gallery instead of Flash?

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The folks here who follow tech issues have probably already heard that Apple will not be supporting Flash for either iPhones or iPads. As more and more browsing goes mobile, this means sites and image galleries built with Adobe's Flash will be 'invisible' to those users.

I've been in serious need of a revamp of our wedding gallery and images and had been looking at Flash since it's the most popular software used in wedding and image sites. Yes, I know about the SE indexing issues, but the sleekness seemed to be an overriding consideration from a visual standpoint.

But now I've been looking at JQuery (java script) galleries and they can appear very, very similar to Flash and (are far more likely to have the images indexed by SEs.)

A couple questions:

1) Any great suggestions for JQuery gallery software? So far, I like these:

http://pikachoose.com/demo/
http://www.twospy.com/galleriffic/example-2.html
http://www.twospy.com/galleriffic/example-5.html

I plan to host the images on my own site.

Am hoping there are alt image tags available to add for each photo, but not sure.

2) What are the downsides to this type of gallery?

Thoughts, suggestions appreciated.
 
Cathy,

Our Florist 2.0 v3 platform relies heavily on jQuery, and I can say that it's quite powerful and slick. Regarding the ALT attributes - that will depend on what you're using to build the gallery. jQuery certainly supports it, as all you're really doing is loading and modifying HTML in user's browser. We have a file manager that let's you upload a batch of images and assign descriptions, etc, centrally so that each time that image is used within the site (galleries, blog posts, content pages, etc) it will have consistent and correct tags.

As long as you're supplying the ALT text to your jQuery gallery, you'll have the output you need.
 
The only potential downside is limited functionality for users without JavaScript, but they are so rare it's not really a concern. Besides ... well implemented Flash is loaded by JavaScript, so a lack of JS impairs both options. Even Google is reading JavaScript and following JS links and Ajax material now.

Here are a few examples of jQuery gallery options we're offering: Slider, Classic Lightbox, Film-Strip style. We've had pretty solid success with all of them.
 
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My eyes are open and my head is swimming with how much of this technology I don't know. Magic toolbox is really cool, but for a florist website, probably overkill. I do, however, think that the FilmStrip style would be great on one. Ryan, are these things standard on your Strider sites??
 
conchandler said:
My eyes are open and my head is swimming with how much of this technology I don't know. Magic toolbox is really cool, but for a florist website, probably overkill. I do, however, think that the FilmStrip style would be great on one. Ryan, are these things standard on your Strider sites??
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Yes, they are :)
 
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