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Issue with image load recursive chain on slow network/mobile

So basically I have a page with a few sections. Each sections contains 5-30 image icons that are fairly small in size but large enough that I want to manipulate the load order of them.
I'm using a library called collagePlus which allows me to give it a list of elements which it will collage into a nice image grid. The idea here is to start at the first section of images, load the images, display the grid, then move on to the next section of images all the way to the end. Once we reach the end I pass a callback which initializes a gallery library I am using called fancybox which simply makes all the images interactive when clicked(but does not modify the icons state/styles).
var fancyCollage = new function() { /* A mixed usage of fancybox.js and collagePlus.js */
var collageOpts = {
'targetHeight': 200,
'fadeSpeed': 2000,
'allowPartialLastRow': true
};
// This is just for the case that the browser window is resized
var resizeTimer = null;
$(window).bind('resize', function() {
resetCollage(); // resize all collages
});
// Here we apply the actual CollagePlus plugin
var collage = function(elems) {
if (!elems)
elems = $('.Collage');
elems.removeWhitespace().collagePlus(collageOpts);
};
var resetCollage = function(elems) {
// hide all the images until we resize them
$('.Collage .Image_Wrapper').css("opacity", 0);
// set a timer to re-apply the plugin
if (resizeTimer) clearTimeout(resizeTimer);
resizeTimer = setTimeout(function() {
collage(elems);
}, 200);
};
var setFancyBox = function() {
$(".covers").fancybox({/*options*/});
};
this.init = function(opts) {
if (opts != null) {
if (opts.height) {
collageOpts.targetHeight = opts.height;
}
}
$(document).ready(function() {
// some recursive functional funk
// basically goes through each section then each image in each section and loads the image and recurses onto the next image or section
function loadImage(images, imgIndex, sections, sectIndex, callback) {
if (sectIndex == sections.length) {
return callback();
}
if (imgIndex == images.length) {
var c = sections.eq(sectIndex);
collage(c);
images = sections.eq(sectIndex + 1).find("img.preload");
return loadImage(images, 0, sections, sectIndex + 1, callback);
}
var src = images.eq(imgIndex).data("src");
var img = new Image();
img.onload = img.onerror = function() {
images[imgIndex].src = src; // once the image is loaded set the UI element's source
loadImage(images, imgIndex + 1, sections, sectIndex, callback)
};
img.src = src; // load the image in the background
}
var firstImgList = $(".Collage").eq(0).find("img.preload");
loadImage(firstImgList, 0, $(".Collage"), 0, setFancyBox);
});
}
}
From my galleries I then call the init function.
It seems like my recursive chain being triggered by img.onload or img.onerror is not working properly if the images take a while to load(on slow networks or mobile). I'm not sure what I'm missing here so if anyone can chip in that would be great!
If it isn't clear what is going wrong from the code I posted you can see a live example here: https://www.yuvalboss.com/albums/olympic-traverse-august-2017
It works quite well on my desktop, but on my Nexus 5x it does not work and seems like the finally few collage calls are not happening. I've spent too long on this now so opening this up to see if I can get some help. Thanks everyone!

Whooooo I figured it out!
Was getting this issue which I'm still unsure about what it means
[Violation] Forced reflow while executing JavaScript took 43ms
Moved this into the callback that happens only once all images are loaded
$(window).bind('resize', function() {
resetCollage(); // resize all collages
});
For some reason it was getting called early even if the browser never resized causing collage to get called when no elements existed yet.
If anyone has any informative input as to why I was getting this js violation would be great to know so I can make a better fix but for now this works :):):)

What does rootmodifers do in famo.us?

I am new to Famo.us, can anybody explain me what does rootmodifers do in famo.us, here is its example
function SlideshowView () {
Views.apply(this, arguments);
this.rootModifier = new StateModifier({
size:this.options.size
});
this.mainNode = this.add(this.rootModifier);
_createLightBox.call(this);
_createSlides.call(this);
}

this.rootMidifier just allows you to have a way to control the entire slideShow's position, opacity, origin, or alignment later in the applications. More importantly this.rootModifier is added to the render node like this this.mainNode = this.add(this.rootModifier); This code places the modifier at the top of the render tree for the slideshow branch and exposes access to the modifier for later use in the all. For example later in the app you could have a function that changes the opacity.
SlideShow.prototype.hide = function() {
this.rootModifier.setOpacity(0, {duration: 3000});
}

How to display html as firefox panel without using sdk

I need to display html elements as contents of a popup panel using javascript in my firefox addon.
Displaying popup using SDK is what I'm looking for but I don't want to use SDK.
panel:
<popupset id="mainPopupSet">
<panel id="htmlPanel" type="arrow">
i want to use html elements like p,div,span, etc here.
</panel>
</popupset>
javascript to open panel:
document.getElementById('htmlPanel').innerHTML = 'my custom contents';
document.getElementById('htmlPanel').openPopup(null, "before_start", 0, 0, false, false);
it seems some elements are allowed but with different behavior! i also need to set CSS for elements inside panel.

I figure it out how to do it using an iframe
changed the XUL as follow:
<popupset id="mainPopupSet">
<panel id="htmlPanel" type="arrow">
<html:iframe id="htmlContainer"/>
</panel>
</popupset>
and create a javascript function to set html contents:
function setupPanel(contents, width, height)
{
var iframe = document.getElementById("htmlContainer");
iframe.setAttribute("src","data:text/html;charset=utf-8," + escape(contents));
iframe.width = width || 300; //default width=300
iframe.height = height || 300; //default height=300
}
and usage:
setupPanel("<p>this is raw HTML.</p>");
document.getElementById('htmlPanel').openPopup(null, "before_start", 0, 0, false, false);
thanks for your hints.

With animation can copy paste to scratchpad to run it.
var win = Services.wm.getMostRecentWindow('navigator:browser');
var panel = win.document.createElement('panel');
var props = {
type: 'arrow',
style: 'width:300px;height:100px;'
}
for (var p in props) {
panel.setAttribute(p, props[p]);
}
win.document.querySelector('#mainPopupSet').appendChild(panel);
panel.addEventListener('popuphiding', function (e) {
e.preventDefault();
e.stopPropagation();
//panel.removeEventListener('popuphiding', arguments.callee, false); //if dont have this then cant do hidepopup after animation as hiding will be prevented
panel.addEventListener('transitionend', function () {
//panel.hidePopup(); //just hide it, if want this then comment out line 19 also uncomment line 16
panel.parentNode.removeChild(panel); //remove it from dom //if want this then comment out line 18
}, false);
panel.ownerDocument.getAnonymousNodes(panel)[0].setAttribute('style', 'transform:translate(0,-50px);opacity:0.9;transition: transform 0.2s ease-in, opacity 0.15s ease-in');
}, false);
panel.openPopup(null, 'overlap', 100, 100);
to display html in it, do createElementNS('html namespace i cant recall right now','iframe') then set the src of this to the html you want it to display
the type:'arrow' here is important

Since this appears to be an overlay of browser.xul, if your panel will display static content or a simple template, you can take advantage of the fact that the XHTML namespace is already declared.
<popupset id="mainPopupSet">
<panel id="htmlPanel" type="arrow">
<html:div id="htmlplaceholder">
<html:p>Lorem ipsum</html:p>
<html:p>foo <html:strong>bar</html:strong></html:p>
</html:div>
</panel>
</popupset>
The Add-on SDK hosts the html content inside an iframe, perhaps you should consider this for more complex cases.

AS3. Animated pop-up window in Flash

I'm creating flash game and for now I have simple menu, when clicking button close current window and add new one.
Maybe could you suggest any script for animated pop-up new window or custom menu? Thank you.
For now I use simple this:
btn_play.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, start);
private function start(event:Event):void
{
menu_background.visible = false;
removeChild(btn_play);
removeChild(btn_control);
removeChild(btn_credits);
removeChild(btn_quit);
addChild(secondBackground);
addChild(btn_back);
}

You can use lots of Tweens for the pop-up by GreenSock.
For example:
//Fade in and Fade out
TweenLite.to([menu_background, btn_play, btn_control, btn_credits, btn_quit], 0.5, {alpha:0, onComplete:function()
{
menu_background.visible = false;
removeChild(btn_play);
removeChild(btn_control);
removeChild(btn_credits);
removeChild(btn_quit);
addChild(secondBackground);
addChild(btn_back);
//Immediately set the alpha of secondBackground and btn_back to 0 and tween them to alpha 1 in 0.5 second
TweenLite.from( [secondBackground, btn_back], 0.5, {alpha:0} );
}});
Experiment more with the TweenLite/Max Plugin Explorer.

Add transition to images on my website

I have this code:
<script type="text/javascript">
var aImages = [
"images/gaming/GTAV/GTAVReviewImage1.jpg",
"images/gaming/GTAV/GTAVReviewImage2.jpg",
"images/gaming/GTAV/GTAVReviewImage3.jpg",
"images/gaming/GTAV/GTAVReviewImage4.jpg",
"images/gaming/GTAV/GTAVReviewImage5.jpg",
"images/gaming/GTAV/GTAVReviewImage6.jpg",
"images/gaming/GTAV/GTAVReviewImage7.jpg"];
var oImage = null;
var iIdx = 0;
function play() {
try {
if (oImage===null) { oImage=window.document.getElementById("review-images"); }
oImage.src = aImages[(++iIdx)%(aImages.length)];
setTimeout('play()',5000);
} catch(oEx) {
}
}
</script>
which changes the image on this page: http://chrisbrighton.co.uk/GTAV.php every five seconds.
How can I add image transition to it?
UPDATE: When I add -webkit-transition to the img tag nothing happens.
Thanks.

There are different ways to do it. A lot of people have went to CSS3 now that there is some really cool animating and transition effects... You can control your ccs3 effects using javascript. For a detailed tutorial check - controlling animations with javascript